WSG slideshow!
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October 16, 2011
Earlier this week, The Atlantic published a slideshow of excerpts from The Wage Slave’s Glossary on its website; the feature was titled “A 21st-Century Guide to the Words We Use at Work.”
The introduction read, in part:
Enter The Wage Slave’s Glossary, a fun dictionary of modern office idioms and new economy jargon by Joshua Glenn, Mark Kingwell, and the cartoonist Seth. … First, there are new words coined for our peculiar moment of both hard work and no work (“gigonomics”). Second, some words you know get the historical treatment (“career” initially referred to a circular racetrack, which seems appropriate). Third, words borrowed from our friends overseas help to illuminate office life (“datsu-sara” from Japan: to quit a boring job).
Cool!
Please check out the Wage Slave’s Glossary homepage, and help us spread the word about the book!