Blowing Your Buffer – Losing your train of thought.
Career-Limiting Move (CLM) – Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot.
Percussive Maintenance – The fine art of whacking an electronic device to get it to work again.
Ohnosecond – That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you’ve just made a BIG mistake.
Seagull Manager – A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, poops all over everything, and then leaves.
Flight Risk – Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave the company or department soon.
Chainsaw Consultant – An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the brass with clean hands.
Blamestorming – Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.
404 – Someone who’s clueless.
From the World Wide Web error message “404 Not Found” “Don’t bother asking him… he’s 404, man.”
