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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
Norrespondence
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)
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
Subsnub
Created by: sboycee
Pronunciation: sub-snub
Sentence: His application was subsnubbed by the asses at the bank.
Etymology: submit + snub
Crappedupon
Created by: blondibabi121692
Pronunciation: crapped uh pon
Sentence:
Etymology:
Rejectamony
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.
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)
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
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
Comments:
Clayton - 2007-06-27: 01:23:00
Fealtility
purpleartichokes - 2007-06-27: 07:04:00
Hey James, my word isn't showing up.
Nor mine.
purpleartichokes - 2007-06-27: 08:01:00
Perhaps they've been kidnapped by a nounja.
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.
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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