Ozone, one of my Twitter mates just asked me if where I work is really like this video - and the answer is yes.
So yup, that’s my worklife… Except that we grew out of grey colours after the first few buildings, and cubicles in Ireland are usually a bit bigger, but shared. I’m one of the lucky ones, I have a double cube all to myself!
Do you identify with that video? If so, you’ll probably laugh at some of these:
- blamestorming: A group process where participants analyze a failed project and look for scapegoats other than themselves.
- Death by Tweakage: When a product or project fails due to unnecessary tinkering or too many last-minute revisions.
- BMWs: Bitchers, Moaners and Whiners.
- clockroaches: Employees who spend most of their day watching the clock — instead of doing their jobs
- plutoed: To be unceremoniously dumped or relegated to a lower position without an adequate reason or explanation.
- prairie dogging: A modern office phenomenon. Occurs when workers simultaneously pop their heads up out of their cubicles to see what’s going on.
- carbon-based error: Error caused by a human, not a computer (which we assume would be a silicon-based error).
- adminisphere: The upper levels of management where big, impractical, and counterproductive decisions are made.
- deja poo: The feeling that you’ve stepped in this bull before.
- bobbleheading: The mass nod of agreement by participants in a meeting to comments made by the boss even though most have no idea what he/she just said.
- ringtone rage: The violent response by cube mates after hearing your annoying cell phone ringtone for the 15th time.
