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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.

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Idea Hamsters
People whose idea generators are always running.

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Link Rot
The process by which web page's links become obsolete as the sites they're connected to change or die.

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Chainsaw Consultant
An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the top brass with clean hands.

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Plug-and-Play

A new hire who doesn't require training.

"That new guy is totally plug-and-play."

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Salmon Day

The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed in the end.

"God, today was a total salmon day!"

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Brain Fart

A byproduct of a bloated mind producing information effortlessly; a burst of useful information.

"I know you're busy on the Microsoft story, but can you give us a brain fart on the Mitnik bust?"

Variation of old hacker slang that had more negative connotations.

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Seagull Manager
A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps over everything and then leaves.

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CLM (Career Limiting Move)

Used by microserfs to describe an ill-advised activity.

"Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM."

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High Dome
Egghead, scientist, PhD

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