Friday Office Humor: A-B Humourous Office Jargon
Suffering from office chair butt? Get up out of your office chair, do some stretching so you do not get office chair hunch, then read some of these funny terms. Don’t forget to forward this list to your cube farm friends who may also need a good Friday laugh. Come back next week for more funny terms. Please contribute your terms so we can build the list
A-B funny office terms
Adminisphere:
The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
Alpha Geek:
The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group. “Ask Larry, he’s the alpha geek around here.”
Assmosis:
The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
Astroturf Campaign:
A fake grass-roots political campaign. Posted in RISKS Digest as a potential future problem in net-based “issue” campaigning, in which massive phony mailings are easier than ever. (see Microsoft’s PR attempt at this early in the monopoly court case. They were going to pay columnists and others to write for a country-wide, pro-MS ‘grass-roots’ campaign… got caught at it though, how embarrassing)
Batmobiling:
Putting up an emotional shield just as a relationship enters that intimate, vulnerable stage. Refers to the retractable armor covering the Batmobile.
Beepilepsy:
The brief seizure people sometimes suffer when their Blackberries and Cellphones go off, especially in vibrator mode. Characterized by physical spasms, goofy facial expressions, and stopping speech in mid-sentence.
Bio-break:
Techie euphemism for using the toilet.
Blamestorming:
Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.
Blowing your buffer:
Losing one’s train of thought. Occurs when the person you’re speaking with won’t let you get a word in edgewise or has just said something so astonishing that your train gets derailed. “Damn, I just blew my buffer!”
Body Nazis:
Hard-core exercise and weight-lifting fanatics who look down on anyone who doesn’t work out excessively.
Bozon:
A unit of stupidity. “Is it just me, or is there always a high bozon count in Rupert’s posts?”
Brain Fart:
A byproduct of a bloated mind producing information effortlessly. A burst of useful information. “I know you’re busy on the Microsoft story, but can you give us a brain fart on the Mitnik bust?” Variation of old hacker slang that had more negative connotations.
Byte-bonding:
When computer users get together and discuss things that noncomputer users don’t understand. When the byte-bonded start playing on a computer during a noncomputer-related social event, they are “geeking out.”
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April 11th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
I love Brain fart. I’ve been using it for years now and people look at me all crazy. It is certainly timeless and harmless in the office and when talking to friends!