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.

Assmosis - The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss.

Blamestorming - Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.

Body Nazis - Hard-core exercise and weightlifting fanatics who look down on anyone who doesn't work out obsessively.

Chainsaw Consultant - An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the brass with clean hands.

CLM (Career Limiting Move) - Used among microserfs to describe an ill-advised activity.

Cube Farm - An office filled with cubicles.

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

404 - Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message ``404-URL Not Found.''

Generica - Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions.

Going Postal - Euphemism for being totally stressed out, and losing it.

G.O.O.D. Job - ``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.

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

Irritainment - Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.

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

Ohno-second - That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake.

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

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.

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

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

Umfriend - A sexual relation of dubious standing or a concealed intimate relationship.

Xerox Subsidy - Swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.

Yuppie Food Stamps - $20 bills.