{"id":183,"date":"2006-10-07T18:24:01","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T17:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/07\/muppet-shuffling\/"},"modified":"2006-10-07T18:24:01","modified_gmt":"2006-10-07T17:24:01","slug":"muppet-shuffling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Muppet shuffling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If modern management-speak, buzzwords and other jargon leaves you confused, then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140515801\/omniglot-21\"><em>Shoot the Puppy: A survival guide to the curious jargon of modern life<\/em><\/a>, by Tony Thorne,  which I borrowed from my local library today, will help to enlighten you.<\/p>\n<p>The title of this post, <strong>muppet shuffling<\/strong>, refers to the practise of moving underperforming or troublesome employees into other departments or positions where they can&#8217;t do too much harm, while the term, <strong>shoot the puppy<\/strong>, means to do the unthinkable.<\/p>\n<p>Other intesting terms in the book include <strong>infobia<\/strong>, the fear of not having enough information, or of having too much, which is also known as <strong>data-glut<\/strong> and <strong>knowledge pollution<\/strong>; <strong>stoozing<\/strong>, profiting from credit card special offers; <strong>proctoheliosis<\/strong>, overweening self-importance, and <strong>cubicle monkeys<\/strong>, low-level employees who work in cubicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If modern management-speak, buzzwords and other jargon leaves you confused, then Shoot the Puppy: A survival guide to the curious jargon of modern life, by Tony Thorne, which I borrowed from my local library today, will help to enlighten you. The title of this post, muppet shuffling, refers to the practise of moving underperforming or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}