{"id":2021,"date":"2004-04-05T19:00:16","date_gmt":"2004-04-05T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=861"},"modified":"2010-05-08T22:19:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T01:19:15","slug":"dilbert-neologisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2004\/04\/05\/dilbert-neologisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilbert Neologisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The indefatigable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mazepath.com\/uncleal\/\">Uncle Al<\/a> has some &#8220;new weapons of mass consumption&#8221; posted, among them these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mazepath.com\/uncleal\/dilbert.htm\">Dilbert Neologisms<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Blamestorming &#8211; Group discussion of why deadlines slipped or projects failed, and who was responsible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Chainsaw consultant &#8211; Outside expert brought in to downsize personnel, leaving the brass with clean hands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Mouse Potato &#8211; An on-line, wired couch potato.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Percussive Maintenance &#8211; The fine art of whacking an electronic device to restore function.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Seagull Manager &#8211; A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps over everything, and then leaves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_lol.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"icon_lol.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The indefatigable Uncle Al has some &#8220;new weapons of mass consumption&#8221; posted, among them these Dilbert Neologisms: &#8230;Blamestorming &#8211; Group discussion of why deadlines slipped or projects failed, and who was responsible. &#8230;Chainsaw consultant &#8211; Outside expert brought in to downsize personnel, leaving the brass with clean hands. &#8230;Mouse Potato &#8211; An on-line, wired couch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-humor"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-wB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}