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

Adminisphere 

A level of management that devises solutions rarely meeting the needs of an organization or the problem they are designed to address.

"I don't know what to tell you Bob, the decision to remove all keys from keyboards to eliminate carpal tunnel came down from the Adminisphere"

Adminisphere by Jakelately January 13, 2009

adminosphere 

noun
1. The mass or envelope of complex policies, procedures, and human relationships surrounding an institution (especially the one surrounding a school, college or university) which is retained by the group of people who manage or direct the institution.

2. The air or climate in a specific workplace, particularly in regard to the management or administration, which makes work in progress difficult due to a lack of clarity, decisiveness, communication, action, or common sense.

3. Abbr. adm Administrative Science a unit of pressure experienced on the job equal to the pressure of that job at an ideal institution. It equals the amount of pressure that will support a spinal column in an office chair at 20 degrees Celsius under standard gravity for eight hours a day for five consecutive days. See table at measurement.

4. A dominant intellectual or emotional environment or attitude among administrators.

5. An aesthetic quality or effect, especially a distinctive and displeasing one, associated with a particular place.

Middle English administren, from Old French administrer, from Latin administr re : ad, ad- + ministr re, to manage (from minister, ministr-, servant. See minister).

New Latin atmosphaera : Greek atmos, vapor; see wet in Indo-European Roots + Latin sphaera, sphere; see sphere.

The student proposal to revise the dorm rules disappeared into the university’s adminosphere and eventually dissipated.

The adminosphere was full of distrust and infighting.

The prep school had a rather Draconian adminosphere.

I have got to find another job, the adminosphere is way to thick around here!

adminosphere by Chef Stealth June 12, 2009