Verboticism: Appallvanize
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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Oversea
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ōvərsē
Sentence: If Janice doesn't get the staff she oversees to produce more, upper management threatens oversea her crew.
Etymology: oversee (supervise) + overseas (in or to a foreign country, esp. one across the sea)
Underpressurecooker
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: un/dur/pres/yur/cuk/ur
Sentence: There was an underpressurecooker attitude in the office - get cooking or get canned.
Etymology: under pressure + pressure cooker
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.
Impendency
Created by: pieceof314
Pronunciation: im-pend-ansee
Sentence: Marsha used her voracious sexual appetite as a motivating impendancy to make her present lover think twice before jetting off to Vegas with the boys.
Etymology: impend, at hand + ency, from urgency
Goadriddance
Created by: focusteacher
Pronunciation: gohd rih duns
Sentence: In a tough economy, bosses can utilize goadriddance to threaten their employees to work harder.
Etymology: From goad=to provoke to stimulate some action or reaction, and riddance=the action of removing something troublesome
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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Appallvanize
Created by: Rutilus
Pronunciation: ap-all-van-ize
Sentence: Marylyn appallvanized her staff on a daily basis, believing it would motivate the good and lead to the departure of the 'chaff'. However, she seemed blissfully unaware that this dangerous approach could catastrophically backfire.
Etymology: appall - frighten, dismay; galvanize - strengthen, motivate
Dumphear
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: dum feer
Sentence: I was overcome byn dumpheer when they moved the office downtown
Etymology: dump +fear
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
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.
