Office Terms of the Late 90's 

 Blamestorming - sitting around in a group discussing why a 
 deadline was missed or a project failed and who was 
 responsible. 
 
 Beepilepsy - The brief seizure people sometimes suffer when 
 their beepers go off, especially in vibrator mode. 
 Characterized by physical spasms, goofy facial expressions, 
 and stopping speech in mid-sentence. 
 
 Cube farm - an office filled with cubicles. 
 
 Ego surfing - scanning the Net, databases, print media, and 
 so on, looking for references to one's own name. 
 
 Idea hamsters - people who always seem to have their idea 
 generators running . 
 
 Mouse potato - the on-line generation's answer to the couch 
 potato. 
 
 CLM (Career-Limiting Move) - Used among microserfs to 
 describe an ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while 
 he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM. 
 
 Ohnosecond - that minuscule fraction of time in which you 
 realize you've just made a big mistake. 
 
 SITCOM - stands for Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage.

 
 Stress puppy - a person who thrives on being stressed-out 
 and whiny . 
 
 Tourists - those who take training classes just to take a 
 vacation from their jobs. "We had three serious students 
 in the class; the rest were tourists." 
 
 Dilberted - To be exploited and oppressed by your boss. 
 Derived from the experiences of Dilbert, the geek-in-hell 
 comic strip character. "I've been dilberted again. The old 
 man revised the specs for the fourth time this week." 
 
 World Wide Wait - The real meaning of "WWW" 
 
 Dorito Syndrome - Feelings of emptiness and dissatisfaction 
 triggered by addictive substances that lack nutritional 
 content. "I just spent six hours surfing the Web, and now 
 I've got a bad case of Dorito Syndrome." 
 
 Under Mouse Arrest - Getting busted for violating an on-line 
 service's rule of conduct. "Sorry I couldn't get back to 
 you. AOL put me under mouse arrest." 
 
 Glazing - Corporate-speak for sleeping with your eyes open. 
 A popular pastime at conferences and early-morning meetings. 
 "Didn't he notice that half the room was glazing by the 
 second session?" 
 
 Dead Tree Edition - The paper version of a publication 
 available in both paper and electronic forms, as in: "The 
 dead tree edition of the San Francisco Chronicle..." 
 
 Graybar Land - The place you go while you're staring at a 
 computer that's processing something very slowly (while you 
 watch the gray bar creep across the screen). "I was in 
 graybar land for what seemed like hours, thanks to that CAD 
 rendering." 
 
 Open-Collar Workers - People who work at home or 
 telecommute. 
 
 Squirt The Bird - To transmit a signal up to a satellite. 
 "Crew and talent are ready... what time do we squirt the 
 bird?" 
 
 Cobweb Site - A World Wide Web Site that hasn't been 
 updated for a long time. A dead web page. 
 
 It's a Feature - From the adage "It's not a bug, it's a 
 feature." Used sarcastically to describe an unpleasant 
 experience that you wish to gloss over. 
 
 Keyboard Plaque - The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud 
 found on computer keyboards. "Are there any other terminals 
 I can use? This one has a bad case of keyboard plaque." 
 
 Alpha Geek - The most knowledgeable, technically proficient 
 person in an office or work group. "Ask Larry, he's the 
 alpha geek around here." 
 
 Adminisphere - The rarefied organizational layers beginning 
 just above the rack and file. Decisions that fall from the 
 adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant 
 to the problems they were designed to solve. 
 
 Gray Matter - Older, experienced business people hired by 
 young entrepreneurial firms looking to appear more reputable 
 and established. 
 
 Salmon Day - The experience of spending an entire day 
 swimming upstream only to get screwed in the end. 
 
 Chainsaw consultant - an outside expert brought in to 
 reduce the employee headcount, leaving the top brass with 
 clean hands 
 
 404 - someone who is clueless, from the World Wide Web 
 error message "404 Not Found", meaning the requested 
 document couldn't be located-Don't bother asking him, 
 he's 404.