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Here’s some non-essential additions to today’s workplace vocabulary.
(a subscriber to my Say it Better newsletter (www.sayitbetter.com) sent this to me… anyone know the author or authors?)

Got Words?
(that would drive Professor Gerald Nunberg, mentioned in an earlier blog item, (author of The Way We Talk Now) screaming out of the room):

SALMON DAY:
The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to wind up flapping helplessly on the riverbanks.

CUBE FARM:
An office filled with cubicles.

PRAIRIE DOGGING:
When someone yells or drops something loudly in a
cube farm, and heads pop up over the walls to see what's happening.

WIPEOUT:
An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

IRRITAINMENT:
Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. Two examples: The O.J. trials and Bill Clinton's Grand Jury testimony.

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE:
The fine art of banging a nearby hard object against your 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.