Blamestorming - Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible. Salmon Day - The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end. Irritainment - Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials were a prime example. Chainsaw Consultant - An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the brass with clean hands. Flight Risk - Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave the company or department soon. 404 - Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404-URL Not Found," meaning that the requested web page could not be located. Used as in: "Don't bother asking him... he's 404, man." Ohno-Second - That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of whacking the shit out of an electronic device to get it to work again. Cube Farm - An office filled with cubicles. Idea Hamsters - People who always seem to have their idea generators running. Mouse Potato - The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato. 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's going on. Swiped Out - An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use. Alpha Geek - The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group. Sea Gull Manager - flys in, makes a lot of noise, shits all over everthing, then leaves.