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DEFINITION: v. To greet a person on the phone in rude or obnoxious manner, and then do your best to ignore, or talk over, whatever they say as the conversation continues. n. A person with atrocious phone manners.
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Uncivilservant
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: un siv il ser vant
Sentence: When April joined the Tax Dept. as an Information Officer, she was rude on the phone with all callers. SHe was a most uncivilservant. No wonder taxpayers hated April!
Etymology: Uncivil (rude, lacking manners) & Civil Servant (a public official who is a member of the civil service)
Uncivilservant
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: un siv ill ser vant
Sentence: Rudi was aptly named. She was employed by the Dept. of Political Correctness and Fair Treatment. Unfortunately she had been a transferee from the Taxation Dept. so in fact, she was an uncivilservant. She snarled into telephones, was rude with co-workers and clients and apparently hated her job. The irony was that she had more Employee of the Month and Outstanding Customer Service Awards than anyone else in her department. Can you imagine what the rest of them were like???
Etymology: Uncivil (lacking civility or good manners) & Civil Servant (a public official who is a member of the civil service)
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COMMENTS:
"Rudi" - ha! - karenanne, 2010-06-24: 13:42:00
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Telebarketer
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: tehl-uh-barrk-at-err
Sentence: Jolene was the perfect Customer Service Rep: she talked fast and loud, was completely deaf, and had years of experience as a Bill Collector, Meter Maid, and Telebarketer.
Etymology: bark at her, from telemarketer
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COMMENTS:
And she cxalls during dinner each night! - Nosila, 2009-06-02: 12:19:00
So THAT's who keeps calling. Good one! - Mustang, 2009-06-02: 21:00:00
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Sinsolent
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sin sil ent
Sentence: Rudi Persson was prone to be a sinsolent individual. She was paid to answer phones and help people, but in fact, she did the opposite. When people told her, "Have a Nice Day", she would mutter, "I've made other plans".
Etymology: Sin (commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake) & Insolent (marked by casual disrespect;an offensive disrespectful impudent act;trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties)
Recepshunist
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ree sepp shun issst
Sentence: the recepshunist was off sick with a partial cold.....two cold shoulders
Etymology: receptionist shun
Operaver
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: OP-ehr-ayvr
Sentence: Lucinda hated her job as customer service operator and as each day wore on and she tired of handling so many complaints and insults she became an operaver, returning insults and making slurs of all sorts.
Etymology: Blend of operator and 'raver' (one who utters as if in madness)
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COMMENTS:
Good match to today's illustration. - artr, 2009-06-02: 06:57:00
clever! - mweinmann, 2009-06-02: 08:45:00
Raving good word - Nosila, 2009-06-02: 12:18:00
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Grembiseech
Created by: diyan627
Pronunciation: grem bi seeech
Sentence: My cell phone company has a whole lovely array of grembiseeches working for them. Works out really well for them and the way they put erroneous charges to my account that can never be resolved or even disputed properly because I can't actually carry on a decent conversation with any of them. Me thinks part of customer service training is a course on the art of being a grembiseech in order to make communicating with them as painful and inefficient as possible.
Etymology: greet + gremlin (adept at subverting or sabotaging mechanical systems) + Bit*% + beseech (to address or request earnestly)
Operantor
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Opp - uhr - RANT - er
Sentence: Hildegarde hated her job as a customer service representative and took every opportunity to respond with her mean mouth operantor persona.
Etymology: Blend of operator and ranter.
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COMMENTS:
great! - bookowl, 2008-04-16: 15:04:00
Clever angle — great word! - Tigger, 2008-04-16: 23:04:00
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Answeraging
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: an-sir-rage-ing
Sentence: Helen had a bad habit of answeraging into the phone with her bad attitude.
Etymology: Answer-reply; reaction. & Raging- violent; mad
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by stache. Thank you stache. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by stache. Thank you stache. ~ James
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