Verboticisms

Created by: whimsy

Pronunciation: snuhb-MIT

Sentence: Tom turned in his application with perfect faith in his immaculate resume, only to be dealt a devastating blow when he realized he only snubmitted the form in vain.

Etymology: snub + submit

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Created by: jesster

Pronunciation: Ne - pot - o -mised

Sentence: Cindy was a good person to know if you wanted a job at MegaCorp. Her position in HR allowed her to nepotomize competing resumes before passing them on to the hiring manager. Introducing a few typos and deleting a handful of keywords was usually sufficient to take care of the average applicant. Managerial candidates were her favorite though - she had even written a Word macro that would automatically find any instance of "lead initiative" and change it to "blocked initiative." Of course, any resume submitted in PDF format had to be deleted from the system.

Etymology: Neptotism (to favor friends or family in hiring practices) + lobotomize (to surgically cut the connections to and from, or simply destroy, the prefrontal cortex, potentially resulting in mental retardation)

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: null-app-lie

Sentence: Not only was Fred's proposal nullapplied, his pay cheques mysteriously stopped being processed.

Etymology: null (nothing,nil) + apply

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: flop-oh-si-shunned

Sentence: His resume was stellar, so why was he flopositioned every time he submitted it? What a poor businix decision on their part. Perhaps he should have just submitted a crapplication. Or maybe he should just stop applying to large abyssnesses altogether.

Etymology: flop, proposition

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Created by: grasshopper

Pronunciation: non/relayt/if/act/ion

Sentence: Human Relations at our company is known for nonrelaytifcation causing many potential clients anxiety attacks.

Etymology: non/none, relayt/relations(as in human relations), if/maybe,maybe not, cat/action, ion/satisfaction

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: sub-mist-owt

Sentence: i'd submissedout non-stop for the last month and then realised i'd forgot to put a contact number on my resume

Etymology: submission, missed out

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Created by: administraitor

Pronunciation: dis-miss-a-point-ment

Sentence: 160 unanswered applications later, Jack D. Ripper could not fathom his run of dismissappointment. "Why don't they call me?" he whined.

Etymology: dismiss + disappoint + appointment + miss

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COMMENTS:

I like the play on words. - texmom, 2007-06-27: 22:25:00

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Created by: Clayton

Pronunciation: ap-li-BIL-yuhs

Sentence: Philip became applibilious whenever he didn't receive a rejection letter. The only thing he hated worse than failure was the failure to fail properly.

Etymology: application + atrabilious

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COMMENTS:

The sentence did it for me,have my vote 8-) - grasshopper, 2007-06-27: 12:41:00

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Created by: texmom

Pronunciation: re ject a moan e

Sentence: That is the fifteenth rejectamony for my job application this month!

Etymology: reject - turn down amony - like.. from the Latin, ok it just sounded right.

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈæpləˌkoʊldˌʃoʊldɚ/

Sentence: For some reason, when I submitted my resume to join the Rockettes, I just got the applicold-shoulder

Etymology: From application + cold-shoulder

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