And now a Blog entry that’s just for fun.  The following are Dictionary definitions that you may not have previously heard:

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

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

ASSMOSIS: The process by which certain people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard

CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.

PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people’s heads pop up over the walls to see what is going on.

MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation’s answer to the couch potato

SITCOMS: 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

STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiney.

XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s work place

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 created to solve

404: Someone who is clueless. From the World Wide Web error message “404 Not Found,” meaning that the requested document could not be located

OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you’ve just made a BIG mistake

WOOFYS: Well Off Older Folks.

To finish up, how about a few “gems” found on recently submitted resumes…

“Education: College, August 1880-May 1984.”
“Work Experience: Dealing with customers’ conflicts that arouse.”
“Develop and recommend an annual operating expense fudget.”
“I’m a rabid typist.”
“Instrumental in ruining entire operation for a Midwest chain operation”

 If you have some “gems” of your own from resumes you’ve received or a definition for our modern-day dictionary, please share your submittal!

The Sourcerer decided that the topic of unemployment is so much in the news today that it would be interesting to see what pundits throughout multiple generations had to say on this subject.  I think you’ll find these quotes worth reviewing:

• Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.  ~Orson Scott Card
• A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.  ~Thomas Carlyle
• You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.  ~William Shakespeare
• A man who has no office to go to – I don’t care who he is – is a trial of which you can have no conception.  ~George Bernard Shaw
• The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you’re on the job.  ~Slappy White
• Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.  ~Jane Addams, 1910
• Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.  ~Cato the Elder
• The hardest work in the world is being out of work.  ~Whitney Young, Jr.
• Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.  ~William E. Barrett
• An “acceptable” level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.  ~Author Unknown
• Unemployment diminishes people.  Leisure enlarges them.  ~Mason Cooley
• Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature – unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.  ~William Henry Beveridge
• We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.  ~John F. Kennedy
• When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.  ~Paige Rense
• I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work.  Work organizes life.  It gives structure and discipline to life.  ~Bill Clinton
• What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?  ~Gerald Barzan
• The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.  ~Robert Farrar Capon, “Being Let Go,” New York Times, 5 August 1984

The Sourcerer would love to add a quote from you to this list…