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DEFINITION: To submit a resume, letter of intent, or proposal for an opportunity that's just perfect for you, and then to get absolutely no response. Nothing.
Verboticisms
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Flopositioned
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
Nullapply
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
Crappedupon
Created by: blondibabi121692
Pronunciation: crapped uh pon
Sentence:
Etymology:
Submissedout
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
Perfectascrew
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
Curriculumvacuum
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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Snubmit
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
Expectashunned
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: ex/pec/ta/shunned
Sentence: His hopes were high, the job description was written for him, but unfortunately he was expectashunned out of this perfect opprotunity.
Etymology: expectation + shunned
Nepotomized
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)
Voidmail
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: void-mail Can't make it any easier than that.
Sentence: Hannah compulsively applied for all of the vacant positions that appeared in the Little Piddlington Gazette, but had not yet received even an acknowledgement. She blamed it on voidmail, a strange virus that had migrated from email to snail mail. But the real problem was that Hannah's reputation was well known by all the employers in Little Piddlington. No one was prepared to take on her gloomy mien and manic depression tempered with occasional bouts of tourette's syndrome.
Etymology: voicemail + void
Comments:
Clayton - 2007-06-27: 01:23:00
Fealtility
purpleartichokes - 2007-06-27: 07:04:00
Hey James, my word isn't showing up.
petaj - 2007-06-27: 07:24:00
Nor mine.
purpleartichokes - 2007-06-27: 08:01:00
Perhaps they've been kidnapped by a nounja.
Verbotomy - 2007-06-27: 08:25:00
The lost words have been rescued... ~ James
purpleartichokes - 2007-06-27: 08:42:00
Oh thank goodness. They were too young to be wandering about on their own. Something appears to be wrong with the Rankings page. I see some folks who verbotomized with only 4 points.
Verbotomy - 2007-06-27: 13:04:00
Hey Purple, I have updated the score so that it is correct now. I will be watching it to see the Double Verbotomy introduces any other bugs ~ James
purpleartichokes - 2007-06-27: 13:54:00
Thanks James!
Clayton - 2007-06-27: 21:01:00
Hmm... my word's not there, either. No word means no votes. Not that I would've gotten any.
Clayton - 2007-06-27: 21:02:00
Never mind that last comment. Very strange.
Clayton - 2007-06-27: 21:02:00
Wait... it's missing again.
Clayton - 2007-06-27: 21:12:00
Wait... it's missing again.
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