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These are Dilbert's newest additions to your vocabulary for use in the late 90s office environment:

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Assmosis: 

The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss.

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Body Nazis:

Hard-core exercise and weightlifting fanatics who look down on anyone who doesn't work out obsessively.

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CLM (Career Limiting Move):

Used among microserfs to describe ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.

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Flight Risk:

Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave the company or department soon.

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5 Generica: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions. Used as in: "We were so lost in Generica tha... more

Generica:

Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions. Used as in: "We were so lost in Generica that I forgot what city we were in."

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6 Going Postal: Euphemism for being totally stressed out, for losing it. Makes reference to the unfortunate track record of postal employees who have snapped and gone on shooting rampages who feel th... more

Going Postal:

Euphemism for being totally stressed out, for losing it. Makes reference to the unfortunate track record of postal employees who have snapped and gone on shooting rampages who feel that there is nothing that an AK-47 and a rooftop couldn't solve.

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GOOD "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.

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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.

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Percussive Maintenance:

The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

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Salmon day:

The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

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  • dturner, Aug 09, 2008 at 08:09 AM PDT said:

    Not sure if these are uesd regularly in offices..nevertheless great ones!!

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