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DEFINITION: n. The fear that you will be outsourced, downsized, unassigned, or separated (one way or another) from your weekly paycheck. v. To use the threat of outsourcing and downsizing to manage and motivate your team.
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Goadriddance
Created by: focusteacher
Pronunciation: gohd rih duns
Sentence: In a tough economy, bosses can utilize goadriddance to threaten their employees to work harder.
Etymology: From goad=to provoke to stimulate some action or reaction, and riddance=the action of removing something troublesome
Strongalm
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: STRAWNG-ahm
Sentence: It was Roxie's mantra, to strongalm them "Do you know the real meaning of salary sacrifice?" She would roar. "It means when your livelihood, becomes your deadlihood, and you, your wife and kids are in the poor house. That will be my payout to you, if you don't get this job done ahead of schedule."
Etymology: Blend of Strong_ARM: to bully, standover & ALM: a back formation creating a verb from alms (s & pl noun): handout, money, goods, and other donations given to the poor and needy - in many cases through unemployment.
Redundantsee
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: re - DUN - dunt - see
Sentence: Arvin was deeply depressed, caught up in serious redundantsee and having visions of his position at the office being eliminated and finding himself looking for a new source of income.
Etymology: Blend of redundant and see. A play on redundancy, a term for 'layoff' in some places.
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COMMENTS:
Good word...Arvin was a redundunce! - Nosila, 2008-05-30: 23:02:00
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Dispissal
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: dis-piss-all
Sentence: Thanks to his boss’s regular habit of dispissalling on his subordinates, Allan had about as much confidence as a wet toilet seat.
Etymology: dismiss, epistle,etc.
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COMMENTS:
interesting - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-30: 12:41:00
Thank you Jabberwocky! - wordmeister, 2008-05-30: 13:57:00
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Usurperize
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: |jʊˈzəːp| |əː| |rʌɪz|
Sentence: Jack was in constant fear of his crazy boss. "He's completely cuckoo" Jack Wood say, "Let's see him usurperize me after I change all the passwords on the mainframe". (Ed.- er mainframe?)
Etymology: Usurp and er-ize for blending raisins...like sultanas only nicer.
Antepressgang
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: anty-press-gang
Sentence: With a heavy heart, Hilary, cast her eyes once again over the positions vacant column. She was in a terrible state with her supervisor antepressganging by pointing out how few jobs were available in the industry all the while bullying the team into working unpaid overtime or facing the jobless queue.
Etymology: ante (opposite) + press gang (group of 'recruiters' who would coerce the poor and vulnerable into military/naval service) + oppress (to subdue)
Pinkslipophobia
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: pink slip o fobia
Sentence: Serena suffered from pinkslipophobia,especially when the budget cuts were announced each year. So far she had dodged that bullet. She was sure it was because she refused to wear a pink slip to work...
Etymology: Pink slip (lose your job) & Phobia (fear)
Managitate
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: Man-aj-jit-tayte
Sentence: My manager knows how to managitate. If I don't finish the job by tomorrow, he's going to cut my pay for next month.
Etymology: Manage + agitate
Impendency
Created by: pieceof314
Pronunciation: im-pend-ansee
Sentence: Marsha used her voracious sexual appetite as a motivating impendancy to make her present lover think twice before jetting off to Vegas with the boys.
Etymology: impend, at hand + ency, from urgency
Motixiety
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: moh/tuh/zahy/i/tee
Sentence: Motixiety is the chosen strategy of most toxic managers. It's easier to stay aloof from their workers by using fear for production, than actually having a conversation and getting to know their employees.
Etymology: motixiety - motivate + anxiety - negative motivating through the use of anixety
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by rebelvin. Thank you rebelvin. ~ James
Attention all female Verbotomists:
It has come to my attention that the most men do not get "Sex and the City", the once popular TV Series which is just been release as "major" Hollywood extravaganza. I am hoping that perhaps, this is just an education problem. And in an effort to address this knowledge gap, I am proposing we engage ourselves in a Sex and the City Week here at Verbotomy, starting on Monday June 2, 2008. That is why I am sending out this emergency call for Sex and the City definitions.
Submit your Sex and The City Definition...
I have also posted a short instructional video on our blog to help give a hint to the males in the crowd. See: Verbotomy gets in bed with Sex and the City
Your humble creative servant ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by rebelvin. Thank you rebelvin. ~ James
Malinareink - 2018-08-01: 06:33:00
Мне очень жаль, ничем не могу Вам помочь. Но уверен, что Вы найдёте правильное решение. Не отчаивайтесь.
Genkareink - 2018-08-01: 10:21:00
Это — невероятно!