Definitions by silvergatlin

salmon day 

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

I spent all day working my ass off on this freakin spreadsheet, only to have my computer crash at the end of the day, losing all the information.

salmon day by silvergatlin June 11, 2006

Cubicle Farm 

a mass expanse of modular office furniture (a.k.a. cubicles)

In a spiteful mood, Fred went crop dusting through the cubicle farm.

Cubicle Farm by silvergatlin October 1, 2003

seagull manager 

A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

Fred never accomplishes anything. All he does is come in here every now and then, complain about deadlines, puts more work on us, then goes back to surfing the intraweb. He's such a seagull manager.

seagull manager by silvergatlin October 1, 2003

meerkat madness 

When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. (This also applies to applause from a promotion because there maybe cake, coffee and doughnuts.)

I heard moans of disgust, so I stood up to see what was going on, only to find myself participating in meerkat madness, caused by Fred's crop dusting.

meerkat madness by silvergatlin October 1, 2003

sitcom

Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids or start a "home business".

Since Fred decided to start up his basket-weaving dotcom business, his family has SITCOM, and he still dresses like a yuppy.

sitcom by silvergatlin October 1, 2003

xerox subsidy 

Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.

After he started his xerox subsidy plan to help his garage sale, Fred felt a little better about his poor treatment at work.

xerox subsidy by silvergatlin October 1, 2003

adminisphere 

The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the common worker. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. This is often affiliated with the dread administrivia, needless paperwork and processes.

Fred's boss's boss came up with another useless idea, that resulted in Fred having even more responsibilities, prompting Fred's coniption fit.

adminisphere by silvergatlin October 1, 2003