Verboticism: Managitate
DEFINITION: n. The fear that you will be outsourced, downsized, unassigned, or separated (one way or another) from your weekly paycheck. v. To use the threat of outsourcing and downsizing to manage and motivate your team.
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Intimitermination
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: in/tim/i/tur/mim/ay/shun
Sentence: The boss kept his employees working unpaid overtime with intimitermination techniques. If they didn't reach their quotas a new team would replace them.
Etymology: intimidation + intimate (hint) + termination
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COMMENTS:
Good mix - like it - Rutilus, 2008-05-30: 14:12:00
Interesting and intimidating!! - wordmeister, 2008-05-30: 13:54:00
Having been intimitermed a coupla times myself, I couldn't help but vote for this. Good job! - mikeysfbay, 2008-05-30: 18:56:00
I sprained my tongue and split a lip saying intimitermination but I like it anyway! - Mustang, 2008-05-30: 22:19:00
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Dispissal
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: dis-piss-all
Sentence: Thanks to his boss’s regular habit of dispissalling on his subordinates, Allan had about as much confidence as a wet toilet seat.
Etymology: dismiss, epistle,etc.
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COMMENTS:
interesting - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-30: 12:41:00
Thank you Jabberwocky! - wordmeister, 2008-05-30: 13:57:00
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Downsighs
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: down size
Sentence: When the meeting had been announced, the jungle drums had beat in overtime mode, speculation was rife and people got their exercise jumping to conclusions. Phil could hear the attitude already in the meeting he was addressing. He was here to tell his staff about the new contracts they had just signed, which would give everyone job security. But being the pessimists they were, he could hear the downsighs already. When he did announce the good news, nobody believed him. They all had visions of severance packages in their heads and had all sent off their resumes and cleaned out their desks. How in the hell was he supposed to service the new contracts now? He figured they had all come down with contract squirmatitis!
Etymology: downsize (To make a company smaller through terminations, retirements, or the selling off of various operations) & sighs (utter with a sigh) & down (cause to come or go down or non-existant)
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COMMENTS:
heehee - galwaywegian, 2008-05-30: 07:40:00
I've had contract squirmatitis before, it's no fun!! Excellent word. - Mustang, 2008-05-30: 22:19:00
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Redundantsee
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: re - DUN - dant - see
Sentence: Alvin was deeply depressed, caught up in serious redundantsee and having visions of his position at the office being eliminated and finding himself looking for a new source of income,
Etymology: Blend of 'redundant' (excess to requirements, unnecessary) and 'see' (observe, catch sight of) . A play on redundancy, a term for 'layoff' in some places.
Usurperize
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: |jʊˈzəːp| |əː| |rʌɪz|
Sentence: Jack was in constant fear of his crazy boss. "He's completely cuckoo" Jack Wood say, "Let's see him usurperize me after I change all the passwords on the mainframe". (Ed.- er mainframe?)
Etymology: Usurp and er-ize for blending raisins...like sultanas only nicer.
Brokeaphobia
Created by: mikeysfbay
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My brokeaphobia keeps me from saying anything to my boss.
Etymology: Said to have been described in a 1929 edition of the Wall Street Journal
Contractivate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kon trak tiv ayt
Sentence: When Megan became boss, she sought to contractivate her team by threatening to out source their jobs if they failed to meet targets. But in the end, it was Megan whose leadership style got her a big promotion, to the office in India!
Etymology: Contract (to assign a job to someone outside one's own business) & Activate (make active or more active;put in motion or move to act)
Redundantsee
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: re - DUN - dunt - see
Sentence: Arvin was deeply depressed, caught up in serious redundantsee and having visions of his position at the office being eliminated and finding himself looking for a new source of income.
Etymology: Blend of redundant and see. A play on redundancy, a term for 'layoff' in some places.
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COMMENTS:
Good word...Arvin was a redundunce! - Nosila, 2008-05-30: 23:02:00
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Intimatedayshun
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: inn tim et daeeeee shun
Sentence: Her intimatedayshun caused almost immediate downsizing in the trouser department.
Etymology: intimidation, intimate day, shun
Antepressgang
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: anty-press-gang
Sentence: With a heavy heart, Hilary, cast her eyes once again over the positions vacant column. She was in a terrible state with her supervisor antepressganging by pointing out how few jobs were available in the industry all the while bullying the team into working unpaid overtime or facing the jobless queue.
Etymology: ante (opposite) + press gang (group of 'recruiters' who would coerce the poor and vulnerable into military/naval service) + oppress (to subdue)