Understanding The Lingo

Blame it on computers, forget-the-grammer e-mail etiquette, the Web or the boss. It's just part of our constantly redefining society that leads us to create and use some of the following.

Stuck in one of those mazes in the middle of the office? You're in a Cube Farm.

Look over one of those partitions and you're a Prairie Dog.

Is the job or project more than your company can handle? Just respond, "We don't have the bandwidth."

Is a co-worker "Out to Lunch"? No, he's just "404."

Pointing fingers about why the project failed: "Blamestorming".

Swimming upstream but getting nowhere? You're having a "Salmon Day."

And, of course, acronyms are hot in e-mail:

    BTW (for By The Way).
    FWIW (For What It's Worth) and
    RTM (Read The Manual)