Verboticism: Uncivilservant
DEFINITION: n. A cashier or customer service representative who is so busy chatting with their friends or coworkers that they ignore their customers. v. To be serviced by a very annoying customer service representative.
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Cashearbasher
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: cashier-basher
Sentence: Despite the number of cashearbashers working at CashCow, they seemed to make inordinate amounts of money. Yet, every week on the current affairs show, there were complainants describing their pitiful stories of how they had been ignored by sales staff too busy chatting to offer real service and how they had resorted to violence to get some attention.
Etymology: cashier + earbasher (someone who talks a lot) + basher (customer who eventually gives the chatty cashier a black eye)
Vexqueuesamee
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Vecks-kewz-amee
Sentence: Im really fed up with those vexqueuesamees, every time I go into that shop I have to wait ages in the queue whilst those girls chat away. Im sure I must know their business more than they do by now!
Etymology: Vex (perturbed,put out) Queues(a long line of customers waiting to be served) =Vexqueuesamee(excuse me)
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-13: 15:41:00
Vexcellent vord! - Nosila, 2008-05-13: 23:21:00
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Customerswervice
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: cus/tum/ur/swurv/iss
Sentence: Customerswervice was so bad that I couldn't even make eye contact with the cashier let alone pay for my purchases.
Etymology: customer service + swerve
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COMMENTS:
They also swerve who only fail to wait on us. Good one. - Mustang, 2008-05-13: 20:24:00
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Reprehensitive
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: rep - re - HENS - uh - tiv
Sentence: Gabrielle was appalled at the abysmal response of the customer service reprehensitive who seemed not to even notice her even though she made several attempts to gain his attention.
Etymology: Blend of 'reprehensible' ( Deserving rebuke or censure; blameworthy)and 'representative' (One that serves as a delegate or agent for another)
Tillshy
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: TILL-shy
Sentence: Why don't you shop on-line, and stop rudely interrupting my day, was the routine retort to customers from the tillshy, check-out "chick".
Etymology: Combination of TILL: drawer for money in cash-register etc., & SHY: as in workshy - to be afraid of.
Crassistant
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: krass issss tant
Sentence: The crassistant finally gave her the attention she had been trying to attract for the previous twenty minutes. In less than one minute he managed to detatch the barbecue tongs from what was left of his manhood, gift wrap it and hand it to her with such a dazzling smile that she didn't carry out plan b after all. she left the store, dropping the garlic crush on the floor as she walked out.
Etymology: assistant, crass
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COMMENTS:
Great word gww! - didsbury, 2008-05-13: 13:53:00
She didn't give him much choice as she had him in a eunique position. Just lucky she didn't threaten him with a castrato iron fry pan - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-13: 15:37:00
...or the dreaded brissket pan. Excellent word — great sentence too. Girl's got attitude! - Tigger, 2008-05-13: 17:45:00
Sometimes, you've just gotta grab their attention... - Nosila, 2008-05-13: 23:28:00
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Servitosis
Created by: pieceof314
Pronunciation: serv-ih-toe-sis
Sentence: Brad suffered from an acute case of servitosis, or rather, it was the customers who were the direct victims of this insidious disease at the local MunchieMart. Brad's shallow indiference to basic customer service couldn't have been more overt. The dwindling customer base seemed to think that they were going to an inconvenience store every time they stopped by.
Etymology: service + (t)osis, state of disease
Malcontedant
Created by: didsbury
Pronunciation: mal-conn-ten-dant
Sentence: I am in a hurry but the staff in this shop are all such malcontendants there is no one who will serve me.
Etymology: Combination of malcontent and attendant. First used by Mark Twain to describe a particularly slovenly, family-run restaurant he visited in Mississippi. The restaurant gained notoriety and indeed some short lived success until it was forcibly closed by the owners who had a sense of humour failure when even physical abuse of the clientele wasn't enough to deter the hordes of malcontent-watchers.
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COMMENTS:
very nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-13: 15:40:00
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Checklout
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: cheklout
Sentence: Harry is an only child. He grew up thinking that he is the center of the universe. That’s just the way he treats his job as a checklout clerk. If a customer is so rude as to expect service he is quick to correct them. He’s been known to freeze a customer mid-sentence with just a look.
Etymology: checkout (a point at which goods are paid for in a supermarket or other store) + lout (an uncouth or aggressive man or boy)
Slackercasher
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: slack er cash er
Sentence: Bill first thought the store had planted a mannequin, arms crossed, at the cash desk. She possessed a vacant stare and exhibited limited life. He stood perplexed, waited for the slackercasher to get into motion. Patience turned to desperation as he heard another cusstomer behind him snarl for help. “OK LET’S GET SOME SERVICE HERE, we don’t have all day!” The slackercasher did get into action: she picked up her cell and began typing a text! Bill resigned to step over to wait in a long line of another aisle.
Etymology: From slacker and casher or cashier.