| 1. | Mr. Cooby | ||
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Mr. Cooby is the one who always gets the blame when something is discovered to be broken or missing. Q.:
"Hey, who got into the cookie jar?" A.: "All I know is that Mr. Cooby was the only one here." |
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| 2. | Replycling | ||
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Vicious cycle of never-ending email replies between two or more parties in a failed effort to delegate responsibilities, assign blame, or come to a consensus. "Gena spent the entire morning replycling with the Pittsburg office."
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| 3. | CYA-ishness | ||
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one's lack of culpability for foreseeable negative outcomes. Derived from the acronym CYA, which stands for "Cover Your Ass" -- common parlance in the American workplace, used when warning co-workers to protect themselves with adequate, blame-deflecting documentation. Joe is thankful to the Legal department for refining his skills at inserting stealth qualifiers (such as: "can," "may" and "helps to ...") to enhance the CYA-ishness of his written materials.
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| 4. | CYA-ishness | ||
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A quality or attitude indicative of the desire to document one's lack of culpability for foreseeable negative outcomes. Derived from the acronym CYA, which stands for "Cover Your Ass" -- common parlance in the American workplace, used when warning co-workers to protect themselves with adequate, blame-deflecting documentation. Joe is thankful to the Legal department for refining his skills at inserting stealth qualifiers (such as: "can," "may" and "helps to ... ") to enhance the CYA-ishness of his written materials.
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| 5. | Chatheimer's | ||
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Chatheimer's is a condition in which one looses the ability to focus on chatroom conversations. It may also be used for someone who comes into a regular chatroom and has said something about someone, but later "can't remember saying that", as to avoid blame placement. "Did you talk to fjka42? He said, that you said, blah blah blah" "Yeah, I talked to him, but he didn't know anything about saying that. He must have chatheimer's."
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| 6. | Greenspanning | ||
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1. The act of blaming someone else for your own mistakes. 2. Refusing to take responsibility for anything BAD while always taking credit for anything GOOD. Greenspanning was pioneered by Alan Greenspan, the former head of the U.S. Federal Reserve System, who has spent the last 5 years denying any responsibility for the housing bubble or subsequent economic collapse -- despite enormous evidence to the contrary. "Did he ever admit his mistakes."
"No way, man. He's Greenspanning again." "Typical." |
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| 7. | Reverse doghouse | ||
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Related to the term doghouse. A common deflection method used by the offending party to revert blame or guilt back to the offended party. Used as a means to avoid accepting responsibility for making a mistake or a bad decision. Expressed by bringing up a prior conflict that is irrelevant to the current situation. Can be used as a a noun or a verb. As in, you are in the doghouse with your girlfriend but instead of saying sorry, you bring up something unrelated to get her in trouble.
"You shouldn't have done that." "Well remember when you forgot our anniversary??" "Don't try and put me in the reverse doghouse" or "Stop trying to reverse doghouse me!" |
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