#slang 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." Categories: slang
#slang Stress Puppy A person who thrives on being stressed-out and whiny. Categories: slang
#slang 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. Categories: slang
#slang 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?" Categories: Glazing slang
#slang Idea Hamsters People whose idea generators are always running. Categories: slang
#slang Flight Risk Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave a company or department soon. Categories: slang
#slang Seagull Manager A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps over everything and then leaves. Categories: slang
#slang Percussive Maintenance The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again. Categories: slang
#slang 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" Categories: slang
#slang Mouse Potato The online generation's answer to the couch potato. Categories: slang
#slang 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!" Categories: slang
#slang 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." Categories: slang
#slang Alpha Geek The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group. "I dunno, ask Rick. He's our alpha geek." Categories: slang
#slang Uninstalled Euphemism for being fired. Also: decruitment. Categories: slang
#slang Assmosis The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard. Categories: slang
#slang Xerox Subsidy Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace. Categories: slang
#slang 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." Categories: slang
#slang Swiped Out An ATM or credit card that has been used so much its magnetic strip is worn away. Categories: slang
#slang Cobweb A WWW site that never changes. Categories: slang
#slang 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." Categories: slang
#slang Starter Marriage A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets. Categories: slang
#slang Open-Collar Workers People who work at home or telecommute. Categories: slang
#slang 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." Categories: slang
#slang SITCOMs ("Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage") What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids. Categories: slang
#slang Link Rot The process by which web page's links become obsolete as the sites they're connected to change or die. Categories: slang
