When I see “cow-orker” I go apoplectic. If you’ve ever used this word, you’re an asshole.
It doesn’t even make sense! What the blue fuck is an “Orker?” Yes, you’re very clever. No, actually, you’re a lame dillweed trying so hard to be funny and witty complaining about people you work with, when in reality you are the jackass. Exhibit 1: your use of that stupid “term.”
Seriously, prison terms are in order.
[hangs head in shame] I actually pronounced “Syfy” in the OP as “Sci Fi”. Apparently I am their target demographic?
I also call them sammichs, but only when talking to my husband, and because the word is silly enough to make me giggle. I correctly call them sandwiches when I’m with friends or otherwise out in public!
[/hangs head in shame]
In one of his songs, Wreckless Eric rhymes “sandwich” with “language”. Something like langwidge/sangwidge. I don’t know if that’s normal in his accent or he was just being cute.
It’s been around for a LONG time. cow orker
I first encountered it thru the Dilbert Newletter. Not sure why you’d get so worked up about it… just take a deep breath.
Why? Because it’s stupid. And it’s not one person that threw it out… for a time, on this board, anytime someone was whingeing about the cubicle occupant it popped up. And most essentially… it reads as COW ORKER. Doesn’t at all sound like co-worker.
Then again, I hate Dilbert, so this info only intensifies my hatred. 
As a cow-orker hater, I totally agree with this. I also loathe Dilbert, but even more, using the term cow-orker has to be one of the lamest attempts at sounding clever I’ve ever heard. It’s like a kid who’s decided that their own joke is hysterical, so they keep repeating it over and over to make sure everyone heard it (because surely everyone else would think it funny, right?!?), but no one gives a shit.
[virtual high-five to overlyverbose]
That might be lame, but the world is worth living in even if only one person gets where I’m coming from…