Verboticism: Steadfuss
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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Employvent
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: em-ploi-vent
Sentence: His endless employvent forced his co-workers to wear their Ipods whilst at work which eventually led to their termination not his.
Etymology: employment + vent (as in to express out loud)
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
Disployee
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dis-ploi-ee
Sentence: Mack is a great disployee. No matter what the company does, he can find the down side of it. The company throws a holiday party; they should have put the money into larger raises. The company pays for employee's parking; garages are ugly and unhealthy because of exhaust fumes. If his dad wasn't the owner, he'd have quit long ago.
Etymology: dis (to show disrespect for; affront) + employee (a person working for another person or a business firm for pay)
Whinaholic
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: whin/a/hol/ic
Sentence: My boss is a major whinaholic about his job. Our hours are 8:30 - 5:00, but he arrives at 7:30 and leaves at 5:30 so he can smooze and cruise with the staff, but never stops bitching about all that he has to do.
Etymology: WHINAHOLIC - noun - from WHINE (snivel, or complain in a self-pitying way) + WORKAHOLIC (One who has a compulsive and unrelenting need to work)
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
Occupission
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: occu-PISS-shun
Sentence: Manny's occupission as PA in Hollywood was to be everyone's bitch and he complained about it constantly. But when confronted with quitting he always asserted, "And leave show business?"
Etymology: Occupation + Piss (as in piss and moan)
Masoccupachism
Created by: Stackd
Pronunciation: mas-ok-yu-pa-kiz-uhm
Sentence: Her masoccupachism was starting to annoy her coworkers, constant complaining of her work was driving them crazy.
Etymology: combination of masochism (gratification gained from pain, deprivation, degradation, etc.) and occupation.
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:
Fretoric
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɛdəˌɹɪk/
Sentence: Fredrick complained all the time, but it was just fretoric.
Etymology: from fret + rhetoric
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