Verboticism: Stafflocoffice
DEFINITION: n., A person who diligently and persistently complains about their work. v., To enjoy bellyaching about your job so much that you would never consider quitting.
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Perpetulagripist
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: purr-PETCH-yoo-luh-GRY-pist
Sentence: Sure, I'm guilty. We're ALL guilty...of coming to work every day to pound out reams of meaningless drivel that nobody ever reads seriously. Sitting thru pointless meetings and concocting vapid "vision statements" which are lies to begin with and kowtowing to semi-illiterate deans and directors who make five times as much as we do and only delegate their imaginary authority while handing out bonuses to their lackeys who drone on and on about their "proactive" approach to multiculturalism and pseudotechnical astuteness. This place makes me want to puke. If the coffee wasn't so good, I'd quit tomorrow and THEN they'd see how easy it is to deal with students who don't speak a word of engrish and have the collective IQ of a bag of hammers. I'm going to the donut shoppe. Do you want me to bring you anything? What do you mean, shut up? Sick of hearing WHAT? That this place is a totalitarian matriarchy run by an illiterate vice president? What do you mean, I'm irritating? What the hell is a PERPETULAGRIPIST? Is that supposed to be an insult? I'm telling the boss that you Verbotomize when you should be working on that mission statement. It smells funny in here.
Etymology: PERPETual+petULAnt+GRIPe+ist= PERPETULAGRIPIST perpetual:continuing forever, everlasting,occurring continually ;Middle English perpetuel, from Anglo-French, from Latin perpetuus uninterrupted.....petulant:insolent or rude in speech or behavior,characterized by temporary ill humor;Latin or Middle French; Middle French, from Latin petulant-, petulans; akin to Latin petere to go to, attack.....gripe:to complain with grumbling; Middle English, from Old English grīpan; akin to Old High German grīfan to grasp, Lithuanian griebti.....ist(suffix):one who has elevated something to a high level or artform.
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COMMENTS:
Apostrophe abuse is RAMPANT and irritating.I had to stop reading a book because in the last 3 chapters, the author found a barrel of COMMAS he wasn't using and inserted them with wild abandon. NOW it's unnecessary quotation marks which are getting up my nose! What's this world coming to? http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/ - metrohumanx, 2008-09-16: 03:13:00
I know what you mean...unnecessary punctuation marks are a pain in the colon! Or is it the semi-colon?????? But I do love ellipses... - Nosila, 2008-09-16: 20:37:00
:) - metrohumanx, 2008-09-17: 01:31:00
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Assiwhine
Created by: hiladizzle
Pronunciation: ass-i-whine
Sentence: I wish Fred would quit. He's such an assiwhine.
Etymology: n., derived from assignment (something assigned, as a particular task or duty; job) and whine (to snivel or complain in a peevish, self-pitying way)
Employmenagaddictomist
Created by: maryamwebster
Pronunciation: employ-men-NAG-a-dictomist
Sentence: "Hazel is such an employmenagaddictomist, but she'll never leave Consolidated - she likes her office chair too much."
Etymology: Employment, gainful work, Nag meaning to kvetch and complain, addict, one who is addicted to the preceding, -omist ending indicating a set prediliction
Associacrass
Created by: pendraghon
Pronunciation: ə-ˈsō-shē-o-ˈkras
Sentence: The Associacrass of the month award goes to Jason Hill, the bearer of the water cooler, and the HR latrine lawyer of ABC, Inc.
Etymology: associate- 1: one associated with another: as a: partner, colleague b: companion, comrade 2 a: an entry-level member (as of a learned society, professional organization, or profession) b: employee, worker3often capitalized : a degree conferred especially
Criveleehood
Created by: chippy
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Mary makes a great criveleehood as a teacher. Her students are horrible.
Etymology: cry livelyhood
Moanitor
Created by: pungineer
Pronunciation: Moan/it/tor
Sentence: Joan was a classic moanitor, the whole office knew she always volunteered to organise the staff day out just so she would have even more material for her non stop complaining
Etymology: Moan: the sound a complainant makes Monitor: a person with special duties such as giving out milk
Depestic
Created by: deaninc
Pronunciation: d-pest-ic
Sentence: being depestic is physically draining
Etymology: the combincation of depression and pessimism
Employeeofthemoanth
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: em-ploy-ee-ov-the-mohnth
Sentence: she was well-known throughout the office for being an employeeofthemoanth
Etymology: moan, employee-of-the-month
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-18: 13:14:00
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Hateblove
Created by: emilylind
Pronunciation: the pronunciation of this word is the words " hate " the letter b and ' love '
Sentence: I hateblove this job .
Etymology: