Here are some amusing made-up words about corporate life I have discovered:
“Bureaucratastrophe” noun, verb – Describes either an event that causes The Process to collapse under its own weight or the actual act of collapsing Process.
“Bureaucratastic” noun – Describes a heavy Process that doesn’t actually do anything, but looks really impressive on a marketing sheet and allows bureaucrats to keep pulling fat salaries.
“Bureaucratology” noun – The study of The Process.
“TPSitude” noun – Grief heaped by an irate manager regarding inadequate TPS reports (either quantity or “quality”).
I don’t really have a specific source for these; I’ve seen them all over the net. Come along and add your own using the nifty comment feature!
The Kleptomatrix (noun) – A complex interaction where each employee continuously steals pens, paper, staplers, etc from another employee’s desk. Typically an unconcious, and annoying, action it can also be participated in willfully in order to exact revenge for having had something stolen, and thus propogates itself indefinitely.
Oh man theses things make me soooo glad I left the Corporate world of Pharmaceutics.
We used to have a Corp Buzzword Bingo sheet in meetings and we would mark off whenever a Suit said words like Synergy, Paradigm Shift and other useless waste of breathable air. Thoretically we’d get up and shout Bullshit if we completed a full line on the sheet… but then we’d never get the meeting done…
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