Sorry > One day in a great forest, a magical frog was hopping down to a water > hole. > > This forest was so big that the frog had never seen another animal in > all his life. But by chance that day, he witnessed a bear chasing after > a rabbit. > > The frog called for the two to stop. The frog said, "Because you are the > only two animals I have ever seen, I will grant you both three wishes. > Bear, you go first." > > The bear thought for a minute, and being the male he was, he said, "I > wish for all the bears in this forest, besides me, to be female." > > For his first wish, the rabbit asked for a crash helmet and immediately > put it on. The bear was amazed at the stupidity of the rabbit, wasting > his wish like that. > > It was the bear's second turn for a wish. "Well, I wish that all the > bears in the next forest were female as well." > > Rabbit then asked for a motorcycle and immediately hopped on it and > gunned the engine. > > The bear was shocked that the rabbit was asking for these stupid things; > after all, he could have asked for money and bought the motorcycle. > > For his last wish, the bear thought for a moment and then said, "I wish > that all the bears in the world, besides me, were female." > > The rabbit grinned, gunned the engine, and said as he sped away, "I wish > that the bear was gay..." > >   >   > Latest terms to add to your vocabulary in the late 90's office > environment: > > Blamestorming > Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a > project failed and who was responsible. > > Seagull Manager > A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, shits over everything and > then leaves. > > Salmon Day > The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get > screwed and die in the end. > > Chainsaw Consultant > An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving > the > brass with clean hands. > > CLM > Career Limiting Move - Used among microserfs to describe ill-advised > activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a > serious CLM.  (Also known as CLB - Career Limiting Behavior) > > Adminisphere > The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. > Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly > inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. > > Dilberted > To be exploited and oppressed by your boss.  Derived from the experiences > of Dilbert, the geek-in-hell comic strip character.  "I've been dilberted > again. The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week." > > 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 Not > Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located.  "Don't > bother asking him . . . he's 404, man." > > Ohnosecond > 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 crap out of an electronic device to get it to > work again. > > Prairie Dogging > When someone yells or drops something loudly in a "cube farm" (an office > full of cubicles) and everyone's heads pop up over the walls to see what's > going on. > > Assmosis > The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by > kissing up to the boss. > >