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Waddamite

A person who exemplifies the finer qualities of Milton Waddams from Office Space, including distracted thinking, disheveled appearance, complete lack of self confidence, inappropriate mumbling or talking to oneself, and an obsessive compulsion to only focus on one item (such as a red stapler or an outgoing wire process) regardless of what else is going on around him/her. Given a small amount of power or control, this person tends to go completely Napoleonic, and is typically just dumb enough to be dangerous.
This new guy Paul is a complete Waddamite. First he shows up wearing a tie that ends four inches above the belt; then he begins really distracting cavitations in his chair, all while mumbling to himself and awkwardly typing on his laptop as we’re trying to explain a very simple process that he completely misunderstands no matter how simple we make it. I can’t believe that anyone would put this guy in charge of a hamburger, never mind an examination.
by Furry Trout May 12, 2010
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Interview Fatigue Syndrome

A condition reached after much initial exuberance about the prospect of hiring additional staff, only to be worn down by a plethora of mediocre, under-qualified or part-time insane candidates, leaving the interviewer with the beer goggle equivalent mentality that even a sub-par candidate late in the system has some great appeal that derives more from a desire to get the process completed than from finding the correct person to hire
Jim is definitely experiencing Interview Fatigue Syndrome. The last candidate he wanted to hire actual wore green socks outside his suit pants.
by Furry Trout November 25, 2010
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Dump and Dive

When your boss decides to manage up by taking on more responsibility than the department has a reasonable expectation of completing, and then dumps the work on his/her subordinates which is followed by an expeditious dive into his/her office to avoid the pending fallout.
Can you believe Jeff’s latest dump and dive? There’s no way we’re going to be able to get all that done without installing a shower and some Murphy beds in the office.
by Furry Trout April 5, 2010
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Blue Boss

The excrutiating pain a man receives when his boss cancels a meeting that would have the boss offsite for the remainder of the afternoon
Glenn got Blue Boss'd when Jeff canceled his meeting in the city. Now he has to deal with him the rest of the afternoon.
by Furry Trout February 8, 2010
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Indiafication

The process of assuming the lingual practice of using too many adjectives to describe something, which stems from spending too much time either in an offshore subcontinent office or conversing with individuals from said office.
Mike demonstrated that his indiafication is nearing completion when he described his latest privacy issue as “surprising, jaw-dropping, shocking really” at the seniors meeting today.
by Furry Trout February 19, 2012
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Overdescriber

Someone who, in a conversation, can’t stop using adjectives to describe something, even after the sentence has gone grammatically awry
Red Fraggle is such an overdescriber. Today she was on the phone with a client and actually said “it's still kinda the same activity a little bit like this kind of” when she was comparing today’s activity to previous activity.
by Furry Trout May 12, 2010
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Zombie Bowl

A public toilet that someone has left completely shrouded in toilet paper
I went into the men’s room this afternoon and the back stall contained a zombie bowl. There was so much paper draped around the thing, I was afraid whatever lay beneath might re-animate if disturbed.
by Furry Trout December 14, 2012
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