treadmill

The definition of being a Graphic Designer. Make the design, show the design, customer changes the design, make the changes, show the changes, customer changes the changes back to the first design, change things back, show first design, customer changes the design to whole new direction, make new design, show new design, customer changes design back to first one... and on and on and on.

Good God that agency has got me running on the damn treadmill. By the time they pick a design I'll have retired.

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Corporate Jumping Bean

A cell phone or pager, set on vibrate that has been left on a surface such as a desk or conference table. Usually the owner of the unit has left the area giving plenty of time to annoy fellow employees.

Shortened to: Jumping Bean

"Argh! Somebody tell Jim to stop leaving his corporate jumping bean lying around, it's driving me crazy!"

special projects

The title given to an employee in a corporation that can mean one of two things:
1.) The boss doesn't know what to do with them and is on his way to letting them go.
2.) The boss needs somebody to do all of the seriously boring and repetative tasks that he/she can't be bothered to give to real employees. This usually involves lower pay than everyone as the title is unqualifiable and therefor you cannot demand any specific pay rate.

"Jim, I'm assigning you to the Special Projects position so taht you can take over the metadata project on the 350,000 documents we have on the server."

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