Yackage: (n.) Incessant, meaningless chatter.

Friday, May 29, 2009

Tweenglish: (n.) The language spoken by preadolescents (from 10 to 13 years of age), called tweens, and young teenagers, as in "I thought I was doing so well, speaking Tweenglish, until I said that something that I would ordinarily have called awesome was beast...and my son looked at me pityingly and said "Mom, no one says beast anymore...now we say it's nasty." I will never be able to keep up with this."

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Veepectomy: (n.) An operation in which layers of unnecessary management are removed from a company's organization chart, as in "I heard that they did a veepectomy on the Sales organization and got rid of over forty completely unneeded vice presidents!"

Synonym: Flattening the organization or flattening the reporting structure.
 

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