By Gareth Branwyn (jargon@wiredmag.com)
Busy Signaling Rapid hand movements indicating that what the person on the phone is saying is more important than whatever coworkers are trying to distract you with.
Churning The constant moving, reorganizing, and purging of office documents to keep the critical information from being swallowed up by less important material.
Coin-Operated Employee An employee brought in for a particular project or set time period.
Leveraged Flyout When a consultant gets a client to pay for a trip so that he or she can visit another pet project that's not as well funded.
Metoobies Participants in online conferences and chats who seem incapable of posting anything other than "Me too!" "Ditto," "What she said," et cetera.
Scribe Tribes Netizens who publish their journals, diaries, and daily ramblings on the Web and organize them into journal webrings and link lists.
Tip o' the crash helmet to: Matthew Anderson, Jim Leftwich, and Scott Smith.
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