.Business Slang
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[Elvis Year]
The peak year of popularity as in "1993 was Barney the dinosaur's Elvis year"
[Flight Risk]
Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave a company or department soon.
[Generica]
Fast food joints, strip malls, sub-divisions as in "we were so lost in generica that I couldn't remember what city it was".
[Glazing]
Corporate-speak for sleeping with your eyes open; a popular pastime at conferences and early-morning meetings.
"Didn't he notice that by the second session half the room was glazing?"
[GOOD job]
A "Get-Out-Of-Debt" job. A well-paying job people take in order to pay off their debts, one that they will quit as soon as they are solvent again.
[Gray Matter]
Older, experienced business people hired by young entrepreneurial firms trying to appear more professional and established.
[Graybar Land]
The place you go while you're staring at a computer that's processing something very slowly (while you watch the gray bar creep across the screen).
"That CAD rendering put me in graybar land for like an hour."
[Irritainment]
Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying, but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials were a prime example.