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Summer 1998
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As technology marches ever onwards and we are assailed with more and more jargon, Stacker brings you this handy cut-out-and-keep quick reference guide to office lingo in the '90s.
Blamestorming: Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
Chainsaw Consultant: An outside expert brought in to reduce employee headcount, leaving the top brass with clean hands
Cube Farm: An office filled with cubicles.
Ego Surfing: Scanning the net, databases, print media etc looking for references to one's own name.
Elvis Year: The peak year of something's popularity - Barney the dinosaur's Elvis Year was 1993.
404: Someone who is clueless, from the World Wide Web error message "404: Not Found" meaning the requested document couldn't be located. Example: "Don't bother asking him, he's 404."
Idea Hamsters: People who always seem to have their idea generators running.
Mouse Potato: The on-line generation's answer to the couch potato.
Ohnosecond: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise you've just made a big mistake.
Prairie Dogging: Something loud happens in a Cube Farm and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.
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 courses as a vacation from their jobs. Example: "we had three serious students in the class; the rest were tourists."
Uninstalled: Euphemism for being fired.
Xerox Subsidy: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from a workplace.
Last Updated: 31 October 1999