Vote for the best verboticism.
DEFINITION: n. A type of frustration created by a manager who never notices when you work late, but always nags you for leaving early whenever you leave on time. v. To carefully monitor your subordinates to ensure that they never leave work a minute early.
Verboticisms
Click on each verboticism to read the sentences created by the Verbotomy writers, and to see your voting options...
You have two votes. Click on the words to read the details, then vote your favorite.
Gotchawatcher
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Got-char-wat-chur
Sentence: Bob knew that he wouldn't be able to leave work early, as the gotchawatcher had his eye on him.
Etymology: Got you + watcher = Gotchawatcher
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
clever - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-23: 09:03:00
like it! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-23: 17:48:00
I used to work for that guy too. - Mustang, 2008-04-23: 21:56:00
----------------------------
Snoopervise
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Snew-per-vize
Sentence: Melody was definitely a hands on snoopervisor who monitored every aspect of her subordinates daily activities, even making note of their bathroom breaks, trips to the water cooler and time spent on the phones.
Etymology: Blend of 'snoop' (nosy person) and 'supervise' (be in charge)
Timepeeper
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: time-peep-er
Sentence: Helen suspected that Tom, the manager, was a timpeeper when she saw him standing by the coffee machine watching every move she made and checking his watch to make sure her break wasn't too long. He was always at the door in the morning with a creepy look on his face watching her take off her coat and he was there in the evening when she put her coat back on to go home. He was seen peeping over the top of her cubicle to make sure she wasn't on Ebay instead of working and wasting company time. One day, however, he went too far and followed her to the ladies room to see that she didn't take too long. He was caught on a surveilance video and her attorney had no problem filing a harassment suit.
Etymology: play on timekeeper -- peeper: voyeur (Peeping Tom)
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
The peep became a purp! Good word. - Nosila, 2009-06-16: 10:45:00
Excellent - Mustang, 2009-06-17: 00:45:00
----------------------------
Tocktickrelationship
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: tok tik ree lay shun ship
Sentence: The interaction, which had always borne the hallmarks of a tocktickrelationship ended badly. The subsequent surgical attempts to reverse the offense which led to its demise proved unsuccessful, leading to extreme embarassment every time her now ex-boss had to travel abroad. He would regularly be stopped and stripsearched at airports and advised by security staff that it was the first time they had found somebody trying to smuggle a twenty dollar watch out of the country using that particular technique.
Etymology: tock tick, toxic relationship
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
reminds me of the crocodile in Peter Pan but then that would be a croctocktickrelationship - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-23: 08:59:00
But this is just pretend so it is a mocktocktickrelationship, but if it was in the clinic, it would be a doctocktickrelationship or in a gym, a jocktocktickrelationship or in a hosiery store, a socktocktickrelationship...it's endless possibilities! - Nosila, 2008-04-23: 20:34:00
...or between sports acne physicians, a pockmarkjockdoctocktickrelationship - stache, 2008-04-23: 21:57:00
What have I begun? - galwaywegian, 2008-04-24: 04:40:00
----------------------------
Ticcompoop
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: tik-com-poop
Sentence: My boss is a real ticcompoop. He even has a ticcompooter to calculate how may seconds we spend in the washroom.
Etymology: tick + nimcompoop
Clockstalk
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: klok/stawk
Sentence: Jim, our obnoxious, irritating, micro manager, clockstalks every employee ensuring that they give 110% of their working time to the company.
Etymology: clock + stalk
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Great word with many applications. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-23: 17:47:00
----------------------------
Streptoclockus
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: streptəkläkəs
Sentence: As a new manager Tom has a bad case of streptoclockus. He watches every minute of his new subordinates workdays as if each second was being pulled from his soul.
Etymology: streptococcus (a bacterium of a genus that includes the agents of souring of milk and dental decay, and hemolytic pathogens causing various infections such as scarlet fever and pneumonia) + clock (a mechanical or electrical device for measuring time)
Bossitch
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: bos-itch
Sentence: Mr. Needler Nosey was such a bositch to his employees and only noticed what he presumed was bad behavior.
Etymology: Boss- A person in charge of the company employees. *itch- Slang for a person who complains about everything.
Timestapo
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: time-stop-po
Sentence: Michael, the manager, immediately asked why I was walking out the door at 4:58. Of course, the TIMESTAPO don't understand that when your work is complete and your computer is shut down that its pointless to sit around twittling thumbs.
Etymology: time stamp + gestapo
Latekeeper
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: lātkēpər
Sentence: The rule at Jill’s office is to calculate time cards in 15-minute increments. What that often means is that her boss, will engage her in a conversation for 14 minutes past her scheduled work day. The other trick that this latekeeper will employ is to wait until he hears the click of the time clock to exit his office to ask for a progress report on her various projects.
Etymology: late (doing something or taking place after the expected, proper, or usual time) + gatekeeper (a person or thing that controls access to something)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
stache - 2008-04-23: 22:10:00
slackervisor looks a little like hank hill.
daniellegeorge - 2008-04-24: 13:17:00
clockblock is genius
- 2008-07-27: 19:30:00
nice words
bob - 2008-07-27: 22:57:00
nice stuff!
wordmeister - 2008-07-27: 23:43:00
Timely words today
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
Where is everybody today? Vacations galore?
monkey88 - 2011-11-18: 01:36:00