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| #4781 | | Emotional Ketchup Burst:
The bottling up of opinions and emotions inside oneself so
that they explosively burst forth all at once, shocking and confusing
employers and friends -- most of whom thought things were fine.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4782 | | Bleeding Ponytail:
An elderly, sold-out baby boomer who pines for hippie or
presellout days.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4783 | | Boomer Envy:
Envy of material wealth and long-range material security
accrued by older members of the baby boom generation by virtue of
fortunate births.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4784 | | Clique Maintenance:
The need of one generation to see the generation following it
as deficient so as to bolster its own collective ego: "Kids today do
nothing. They're so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All
they do is shop and complain."
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4785 | | Consensus Terrorism:
The process that decides in-office attitudes and behavior.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4786 | | Sick Building Migration:
The tendency of younger workers to leave or avoid jobs in
unhealthy office environments or workplaces affected by the Sick
Building Syndrome.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4787 | | Recurving:
Leaving one job to take another that pays less but places one
back on the learning curve.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4788 | | Ozmosis:
The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4789 | | Power Mist:
The tendency of hierarchies in office environments to be diffuse
and preclude crisp articulation.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4790 | | Overboarding:
Overcompensating for fears about the future by plunging
headlong into a job or life-style seemingly unrelated to one's
previous life interests: i.e., Amway sales, aerobics, the Republican
party, a career in law, cults, McJobs....
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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