Got laid off? What better way to leave a lasting mark and signal that you’re completely checked out, than to pick a completely inappropriate code name for your last project? Here are some ideas:

- Card games or other games of chance, “Project Craps”, “Project Blackjack”
- Web 1.0 or 2.0 flops (past or soon to be, see f*cked company) “Project WebVan”
- Slang for drugs, “Project Purple Haze”, “Project Smack” or better yet something more obscure
- Prominent historical failures, “Project Hindenburg” etc
- Project [insert name of Central African country here]
- Diseases of yore: “Project Gout”
- Not-so-creative imagery, “Project Tumbleweed”
- Use “i” as a prefix (iProject). Hey, Google’s still doing it; or to sound even more out of it, use an “e”
- Names of depressed cities/regions, “Project Rust Belt,” “Project Flint”

Previously: Ideas for Project & Code Names

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