The Vietnam Believer Newsletter_May 13th, 2024_ENVol. 007.pdf
Management terminologies.pptx
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BLAMESTORMING &
BLOGSNOB
A discussion (which may
be at the group,
community or society
level) in which members
attempt to assign blame
for a particular misdeed
One who refuses to
respond to comments
on their blog from
people outside their
friends circle.
3.
BLUEJACKING &
BOSS- SPASMING
It refers to sending
unnecessary and
anonymous messages by
using bluetooth enabled
devices as a contact. It has
been derived from
bluetooth and hijacking.
Suddenly looking
busy as a manger
enters the room.
4.
CABINET CASTAWAYS &
CUBE FARM
They are products
bought by consumers
and never used by
them. They lay on the
shelves, collecting dust.
An office with an
umpteen number
of cubicles.
5.
EGOSURFING &
FRIDGE GOOGLING
Practice of searching for
one’s own name, surname,
full name, pseudonym, or
screen name on a popular
search engine, to see what
results appear.
Running an Internet
search based on some or
all of the contents of
one’s fridge, looking for
a recipe based on those
contents.
6.
FUEL COLLAR WORKER &
GRASS CEILING
Those either in the travel
industry or who very
regularly travel as a part of
their job, i.e. door to door
salesmen, field salesmen,
airline pilots, etc. They
spend the bulk of their time
traveling.
The disadvantage
ladies might face in
scaling the corporate
ladder because of
golf.
7.
McDONALDIZATION &
MORGANISATION
The process in which
a society takes the
characteristics of a fast
food restaurant. The
term was coined by
George Ritzer.
Organizational
abilities to rescue
failing firms and
restore them to
profits.
8.
NOMOPHOBIA &
PHARMING
The term NOMOPHOBIA or
no mobile phone phobia is
used to describe a
psychological condition
when people have a fear of
being detached from mobile
phone connectivity
Re-routing the traffic
of a particular website
to a bogus one.
9.
PHUBBING &
QWERTY TUMMY
The practice of ignoring
one’s companion or
companions in order to
pay attention to one’s
phone or other mobile
devices.
It is an upset stomach brought
on by the use of a filthy
computer keyboard. A recent
study showed that a keyboard
has 5X more bacteria than a
toilet seat. The user could
inadvertently put a finger in the
mouth and suffer acute food
poisoning. It all starts when
people eat while working,
leaving crumbs on the
keyboard, which attract mice.
10.
SILICON VALLEY HAIRCUT &
SILLYWOOD
The Venture Capitalist
replacing the founder with
a professional in an IT
Venture.
Movies made by a
collaboration between
Silicon Valley and
Hollywood.
11.
SWEETHEARTING &
VIAGRISATION
Sweet hearting is a method
cashiers use to pass on
goods to friends by failing
to bill one. They do so by
passing two items, and
obscuring the barcode of
one, so it goes unnoticed.
In the world of
advertising, it refers to
the use of long sustained
advertising campaigns to
promote an event which
is essentially short in
life. For example- IPL
12.
WARDRIVING &
XEROX SUBSIDY
It is the act of searching for Wi-Fi
wireless networks by a person in a
moving vehicle, using a portable
computer or PDA. Wardriving was
named after the term wardialing from
the 1983 film WarGames, which
involved searching for computer
systems with software that dialed
numbers sequentially to see which ones
were connected to a fax machine or
computer.
Euphemism for
swiping free
photocopies from
one’s workplace.