Generation X

As you may recall from earlier postings, I recently read Microserfs by Douglas Coupland. I've managed to find Generation X, one of his earlier works, and started reading it:

I like it already. It has these little Urban Dictionary-style definitions as footnotes. One I especially like is:

Consensus Terrorism: The process that decides in-office attitudes and behaviour.

Mmmm. Wonder how often I've seen that. Now I have a name for it. Here's a few more:

Power Mist: The tendency of hierarchies in office environments to be diffuse and preclude crisp articulation.

Recurving: Leaving one job to take another that pays less but places one back on the learning curve.

As in art, so in life, or maybe the other way around.