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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Pinkslippery
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: pink slip per ee
Sentence: Snow White had a unique approach to making the Seven Dwarves work in the mines. She was Happy if they went off each morning singing their Hi-Ho song. But if they felt Sleepy or Sneezy or Dopey or Bashful and did not go to the Doc, it would make Snow White Grumpy. So she would use pinkslippery to motivate their little back sides. Let's face there isn't much work out there for whistling tiny guys, who only know how to work underground. Although it is Grimm, it obviously worked, because no movie was ever made about Snow White and the 5 or 6 Dwarves.
Etymology: Pink Slip (official notice that you have been fired from your job) & Slippery (not to be trusted;being such as to cause things to slip or slide) also Slipper (as in the magical footwear famous in fairy tales).
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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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
Bombayboot
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: bom-bey-boot
Sentence: Clyde thought he'd keep his crew in line with the threat of outsourcing. To his surprise the company gave his entire division the Bombayboot. Now if you call Clyde's old phone number it is answered by someone with a heavy Indian accent named Bradley.
Etymology: Bombay (city in India) + boot (dismiss from service, fire)
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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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
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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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
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
