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Dilbert's New Words for 2000
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Blamestorming: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was
missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

Seagull Manager - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, poops
over everything and then leaves.

Cube Farm: An office filled with cubicles.

Idea Hamsters: People who always seem to have their idea generators 
running.

Mouse Potato: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

Prairie Dogging: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube 
farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.

Poets: Students accepted into top-school MBA programs who have less than 
stellar quantitative skills.

SITCOMs: What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them 
stops working to stay home with the kids. Stands for Single Income, Two 
Children, Oppressive Mortgage.

Starter Marriage: A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with
no kids, no property and no regrets.

Stress Puppy: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and
whiny.

Swiped Out: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because 
the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

Tourists: People who take training classes just to get a vacation from 
their jobs. "We had three serious students in the class; the rest were
just tourists."

Treeware: Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.

Xerox Subsidy: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's
workplace.

Alpha Geek: The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an 
office or work group.

Assmosis: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and 
advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

Chips and Salsa: Chips = hardware, salsa =software. "Well, first we gotta
figure out if the problem's in your chips or your salsa."

Flight Risk: Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to 
leave a company or department soon.

GOOD Job: A "Get-Out-Of-Debt" job. A well-paying job people take in order
to pay off their debts, one that they will quit as soon as they are
solvent again.

Irritainment: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying, but
you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials were a 
prime example.

Percussive Maintenance: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an 
electronic device to get it to work again.

Uninstalled: Euphemism for being fired. Heard on the voicemail of a vice 
president at a downsizing computer firm: "You have reached the number of
an uninstalled vice president. Please dial our main number and ask the
operator for assistance." See also Decruitment.

Yuppie Food Stamps: The ubiquitous $20 bills spewed out of ATMs
everywhere. Often used when trying to split the bill after a meal: "We 
each owe $8, but all anybody's got is yuppie food stamps."