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Office Vocabulary

Newest terms to add to your vocabulary in the late 90s office environment:

Blamestorming: Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was
missed or a project failed and who was responsible.

Chainsaw consultant: An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee
headcount, leaving the brass with clean hands.

CLM: Career Limiting Move – Used among microserfs to describe ill-advised
activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.
(Also known as CLB – Career Limiting Behavior)

Adminisphere: The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the
rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly
inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.

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