The Tendo View

With the U.S. unemployment rate at a 26-year high of 9.7 percent, an estimated 14.7 million people are currently out of work. Those are unhappy statistics.

Let’s hark back to a simpler time, before the economy was lamented as much as the weather, when slackers could hide out in forgotten cubicles and devise ever more ways of dodging work, ducking responsibility, and wasting company time.

The following is our jargon tribute to a dying breed: the slackers.

• Arrow shooter: Someone who spits out big ideas, and usually doesn’t act on them
• Matador: Someone skilled at dodging work or responsibility
• Multi-slacking: Keeping a browser window up to conduct personal business, along with a legitimate window, then quickly switching over to the legitimate browser when a manager is near
• Sun lighting: Conducting personal business at work
• Throw it over the wall: Passing something that you don’t want to deal with on to another department