Friday, November 4, 2011

Jobfuscate

(n.) Creating a job or job description so complex that others cannot possibly understand it, thus minimizing the risk of being micromanaged.
"His position is so jobfuscated that it would take three analysts a year to figure out what he does."
(contributed by Branden Espinoza)

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Acronymphomania

(n.) The unhealthy psychological compulsion, especially in large organizations, to reduce jargon to increasingly unintelligible first-letter pseudonyms.

"SNAFU, DOD, FBI, CIA, FUBAR... are these terms related? I think our government is suffering from acronymphomania."