Company Buzz Words

New Corporate Buzz Words for the 21st Century:

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

Seagull Manager: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, and then leaves.

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


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

Tourists: People who take training classes just to get a vacation from their jobs. "We had three serious students in class; the rest were just tourists."

Treeware: Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.

Alpha Geek: The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group. "Ask Ali, he's the Alpha Geek around here.

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

GOOD job: A "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.

Percussive Maintenance: The fine art of attacking an electronic device to get it to work again.