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Bizzwords covers "the emerging vocabulary" of the business world - the buzzwords of business you need to know to be in the know on the cube farm.
Chainsaw consultant - an outside consultant brought in to fire employees
Brightsizing - downsizing by laying off the brightest workers
Layoff lust - the desire to be fired from one's job
to Nasdaq - to sharply decline in value or quantity
bozo explosion - a rapid increase of incompetent employees at a particular company
mucus trooper - an employee with a cold or the flu who insists on showing up for work
prairie-dogging - the sudden appearance of people's heads over the top of the cubicle walls when something interesting or noisy happens
jetiquette - the flyers' code of polite behavior
clickstream - the virtual path a person takes while surfing the Web
Zen mail - an e-mail message without text or attachments
Dorito syndrome - dissatisfaction felt after wasting time surfing the Net and accomplishing nothing
ohnosecond - the little bit of time it takes you to realize that you've just made a huge mistake
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