Read a cartoon of Cubicle Land recently, it is soooooo funny.Let me just quota the first sentence there: A boss went to the kindergarten to give a speech to the kids. "When you grow up, you will be put into a container called ---- CUBICLE"
Just googled some funny slangs related with cubicle, copy them here:
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404
Someone who is clueless. From the Web error message, “404 Not Found,” which means the document requested couldn’t be located. “Don’t bother asking John. He’s 404.”
Adminisphere
The rarified organizational layers above the rank and file that makes decisions that are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant.
Alpha Geek
The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group. “I dunno, ask Rick. He’s our alpha geek.”
Arachnoleptic fit (n.) The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.
Assmosis
The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
Batmobiling
putting up emotional shields. Refers to the retracting armor that covers the Batmobile as in “she started talking marriage and he started batmobiling”
Beelzebug (n.) Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
Beepilepsy
The brief siezure people sometimes suffer when their beepers go off, especially in vibrator mode. Characterized by physical spasms, goofy facial expressions, and stopping speech in mid-sentence.
Betamaxed
when a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior but better marketed competition as in “Microsoft betamaxed Apple right out of the market”
Blamestorming
A group discussion of 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 are 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!” (Synonym: “Head Crash”)
Body Nazis
Hard-core exercise and weight-lifting fanatics who look down on anyone who doesn’t work out obsessively.
Bookmark
To take note of a person for future reference. “After seeing his cool demo at Siggraph, I bookmarked him.”
Bozone (n.) The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
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.
Cashtration (n.) The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
Caterpallor (n.) The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
CGI Joe
A hard-core CGI script programmer with all the social skills and charisma of a plastic action figure.
Chainsaw Consultant
An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the top brass with clean hands.
Chip Jewelry
Old computers destined to be scrapped or turned into decoration. “I paid three grand for that Mac and now it’s nothing but chip jewelry.”
Chips and Salsa
Chips = hardware, salsa = software. “First we gotta figure out if the problem’s in your chips or your salsa.”
CLM
(Career Limiting Move)
Used by microserfs to describe an ill-advised activity. “Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.”
Cobweb
a WWW site that never changes
Crapplet
A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. “I just wasted 30 minutes downloading that crapplet!”
Cube Farm
An office filled with cubicles.
Dead Tree Edition
The paper version of a publication available in both paper and electronic forms.
Decafalon (n.) The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
Dilberted
To be exploited and oppressed by your boss, as is Dilbert, the comic strip character. “Damn, I’ve been dilberted again! The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week.”
Dopeler effect The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
Dorito Syndrome
The feeling of emptiness and dissatisfaction triggered by addictive substances that lack nutritional content. “I just spent six hours surfing the Web, and now I’ve got a bad case of Dorito Syndrome.”
Egosurfing
Scanning the Net, databases, etc., for one’s own name.
Elvis Year
the peak year of popularity as in “1993 was Barney the dinosaur’s Elvis year”
Foreploy Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
Generica
fast food joints, strip malls, sub-divisions as in “we were so lost in generica that I couldn’t remember what city it was”
Giraffiti Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
Glazing
Corporate-speak for sleeping with your eyes open; a popular pastime at conferences and early-morning meetings. “Didn’t he notice that by the second session half the room was glazing?”
Glibido All talk and no action.
Going Postal
totally stressed out and losing it like postal employees who went on shooting rampages
Gray Matter
Older, experienced business people hired by young entrepreneurial firms trying to appear more professional and established.
Graybar Land
The place you go while you’re staring at a computer that’s processing something very slowly (while you watch the gray bar creep across the screen). “That CAD rendering put me in graybar land for like an hour.”
High Dome
egghead, scientist, PhD
Hipatitis Terminal coolness.
Idea Hamsters
People whose idea generators are always running.
Ignoranus A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
Inoculatte To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
Intaxication Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
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.
It’s a Feature
From the old adage, “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.” Used sarcastically to describe an unpleasant problem you wish to gloss over.
Karmageddon It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer.
Keyboard Plaque
The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on some people’s computer keyboards.
Link Rot
The process by which web page’s links become obsolete as the sites they’re connected to change or die.
Meatspace
the physical world (as opposed to the virtual) also “carbon community” “facetime” “F2F” “RL”
Mouse Potato
The on-line generation’s answer to the couch potato.
Ohnosecond
That minuscule fraction of time during which you realize you’ve just made a terrible error.
Open-Collar Workers
People who work at home or telecommute.
Osteopornosis A degenerate disease.
Percussive Maintenance
The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
Perot
To quit unexpectedly. “My cellular phone just perot’ed.”
Physmental (adj.) The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
Plug-and-Play
A new hire who doesn’t require training. “That new guy is totally plug-and-play.”
Prairie Dogging
When something loud happens in a cube farm, causing heads to pop up over the walls trying to see what’s going on.
Reintarnation Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
Ribs ‘N’ Dick
a budget with no fat as in “we’ve got ribs ‘n’ dick and we’re supposed to find 20K for memory upgrades”
Salmon Day
The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed in the end. “God, today was a total salmon day!”
Sarchasm The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.
Seagull Manager
A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, shits over everything and then leaves.
Siliwood
the coming convergence of movies, interactive TV and computers; also “Hollywired”
SITCOMs
What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids. “Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage”
Square-Headed Spouse
Computer
Squirt the Bird
To transmit a signal up to a satellite. “Crew and talent are ready...what time do we squirt the bird?”
Starter Marriage
A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets.
Stress Puppy
A person who thrives on being stressed-out and whiny.
Swiped Out
An ATM or credit card that has been used so much its magnetic strip is worn away.
Tourists
Those who take training classes just to take a vacation from their jobs. “There were only three serious students in the class; the rest were just tourists.”
Treeware
Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.
Umfriend
One with whom one has a sexual relationship; as in, “this is Dale, my...um...friend.”
Under Mouse Arrest
Getting busted for violating an online service’s rule of conduct. “Sorry I couldn’t get back to you. AOL put me under mouse arrest.”
Uninstalled
Euphemism for being fired. Also: decruitment.
World Wide Wait
The real meaning of WWW.
Xerox Subsidy
Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s workplace.
Yuppie Food Coupons
Twenty dollar bills from an ATM
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