(1). Short-hand for a trading desk at a financial firm.
Desk
RANDOM LINGO
Blamestorm
(1). A situation in which a group of co-workers meet to decide who will take the fall for a major screw-up for which nobody wants to accept responsibility.
“Okay, team…we, don’t want to create a blamestorm here, but I think we all know Tom was the one that forgot to send out the presentation…am I right?”
Props to Mary D. for the submission.
KPI
(1). Stands for “key performance indicator”, which is something that call center in Bangalore points to every time you start complaining about their bill.
“As you can see from Slide 8 of the deck, our KPIs in GUI maintenance are right on par with our SLA. Any questions?”
Props to KGH for the submission.