Shamelessly Excerpted From Chainmail

particularly notable in DC...

SEAGULL MANAGER:
A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then
leaves.

ADMINISPHERE:
The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file.
Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly
inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.

SALMON DAY:
The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get
screwed and die in the end