| 1. | cubiculture | ||
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1. The terms and other manifestations of human interaction used exclusively in the collective corporate environment. Similar to the definition of culture in that it describes the social institutions of a particular group of people; in this case, those who work in and around cubicles or in a traditional corporate setting. Cubiculture manifests itself in such terms such as:
"How's your bandwidth, Bobby?" "We have some things coming down the pipeline." "What's on your plate today?" A very apt depiction of cubiculture can be found in the movie "Office Space": "He's got a case of the Monday's" "Yeah. It's just that we're putting new coversheets on all the TPS reports *before* they go out now. So if you could just remember to do that from now on, that'd be great. All right!" |
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| 2. | hotelling | ||
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An office setup in which mobile workers do not have permanent desks or cubicles and so must reserve a workspace when they come into the office. Consultant #1: I spend so much time at customer sites that I don't need an office.
Consultant #2: Welcome to the Wild World of Hotelling! |
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| 3. | cubiculture | ||
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The terms and other manifestations of human interaction used exclusively in the collective corporate environment.
Similar to the definition of culture in that it describes the social institutions of a particular group of people; in this case, those who work in and around cubicles or in a traditional corporate setting. Cubiculture manifests itself in such terms such as:
"How's your bandwidth?" "We have some things coming down the pipeline." "What's on your plate today?" A very apt depiction of cubiculture can be found in the movie "Office Space": "He's got a case of the Monday's" "Yeah. It's just that we're putting new coversheets on all the TPS reports *before* they go out now. So if you could just remember to do that from now on, that'd be great. All right!" |
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| 4. | fundatory | ||
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mandatory fun activities that happen at work, which are never actually fun at all. This afternoon, we have to trudge up the hill to the fundatory holiday party. If i wanted to die of boredom, I could stay in my own office and listen to Bill talk about his kids, but noooooo, we have to hit the fundatory.
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| 5. | cube rebel | ||
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Someone who is has no other choices to work in a corporate, bureaucratic office, and more often than not, sits in some variation of numerous cubicle desks in the office, floor, building. This person fights for individuality daily, resists the automaton culture, in minute ways in their 8 x 8 cubicle space. Small acts of rebellion could include: cubicle art/pictures, wearing outrageous nail polish/underwear/or no underwear at all under your corporate attire, faking "busyness" and "work", etc. Despite these daily rebellious acts, their spirit dies everyday that they remain.... 1. Mary comes in everyday for his 9-5, but hates it, it isn't for him--he is such a cube rebel.
2. I'm much too creative for this office job and expectation (and pressure) to I should fit into this bureaucratic corporate culture! I'm surrounded by sheep and lemmings! |
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| 6. | thugged out | ||
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Adj. Presenting the outward appearance of one's identification with urban ghetto culture through affected attitudes, mannerisms, language, or dress. Deshante sauntered slowly to the principal's office in his F.U.B.U jacket and do rag, making his best effort to look thugged out despite being only twelve years old.
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| 7. | giptonite | ||
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A scally from gipton (Leeds) who wears the same washed out tight blue jeans tucked into his cheap socks complete with the standard giptonite footwear: rockports. Normally wears about 73 cheap gold sovereign rings together with a fake red/blue/green berghaus fleece. They are also infamous for the compulsory faded baseball cap tilted at approximately 82 degrees showing a manky fringe which is normally left to grow obscuring vision while the rest of their head is shaved. From the lack of clean water combined with the allergy to reading, culture etc. they "mature" to be hateful, and ignorant growing to hate all the rich people, black people, asian people, gay people etc.
Harmless in small numbers, but dangerous in a group of about twenty+ Normally called Kayley, Danny, Jimmy, Kacey Kimberley, or anything else that can be shortened to have an "ay" sound at the end. Walk into any standard dole office/kwiksave/jjb and you are sure to find a couple of giptonites circulating around the exits with more than they walked in with. Stear Clear
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