Lingo for the New Millennium...

Blamestorming - group discussion about why a project failed and who was responsible
Chainsaw consultant - an outside expert brought in to reduce the employee headcount, leaving the top brass with clean hands
Cube farm - an office filled with cubicles
Prairie dogging - when something loud happens in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on
Idea hamsters - people who always seem to have their idea generators running
Mouse potato - the on-line couch potato
ohnosecond - that miniscule fraction of time when you realize you've just made a big mistake
Tourists - those who take inservice just to take a vacation from their jobs -- "We had three serious students in the class; the rest were tourists."
Uninstalled - being fired

Teacher's quote o' the day: "When I die, let it be at an inservice. That's where the line between life and death is barely noticeable."

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