Verboticisms

Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: rehs-pohns-lehs-nehs

Sentence: The responselessness rid him of the remaining life he had as a sanitary engineer.

Etymology: response + -less [none] + -ness [noun]

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: kurr ick you lum vack youm

Sentence: His resume was sucken into the curriculumvacuum, tearing off a large chunk of his self-confidence as it sped toward the void

Etymology: curriculum vitae vacuum

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COMMENTS:

Fantastic! I think this is where I'm supposed to pull content for the class I was hired to teach this summer. Would it have killed them to get textbooks? - ErWenn, 2007-06-27: 06:40:00

All right! - Clayton, 2007-06-27: 21:04:00

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: reh-zoo-NAY

Sentence: Alex resunayed the entire accordion sales industry in town--perhaps moving to another state could get a response.

Etymology: resumé + nay

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COMMENTS:

I thought of the same word this AM. What a verboddity. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-27: 09:21:00

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Created by: kikiec83

Pronunciation: PUR-FECK-AH-SKRU

Sentence: While Egor believed a "Carrie" theme was incredibly appropriate for their senior prom, the student body exec board's immediate revocation of his invite was an apparent perfectascrew.

Etymology: Middle English parfit, from Anglo-French, from Latin perfectus, to carry out, from per- thoroughly to make, do; scrue, usually vulgar, fucked, rejected

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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: 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: blondibabi121692

Pronunciation: crapped uh pon

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Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: No-res-pawn-dense

Sentence: I was saddened to realize I was "too old" for the job. After 40 years in college training in lifeguarding, it turns out the only qualifications you need are youth and looks.

Etymology: Correspondence (mail) + no response (without an answer)

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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: micheles

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