Verboticism: Minutger

DEFINITION: n. A type of frustration created by a manager who never notices when you work late, but always nags you for leaving early whenever you leave on time. v. To carefully monitor your subordinates to ensure that they never leave work a minute early.
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Tockpsychology
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: tok sik ol ogee
Sentence: Mr. Grant was the devil for playing tockpsychology games on his employees. Even if they came in at 6:00 am, he'd watch anyone leaving before 5:30 pm and make snide comments on their lack of dedication.
Etymology: Tock (as in Tick Tock, the sound of a clock) & Psychology (the science of mental life) & Wordplay on toxicology (the branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature and effects and treatments of poisons)
Tickoff
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: tick - off
Sentence: We turn a blind eye to staff showing up early to work but we are rigorous about tickoff procedures and plan to appoint a manager to ensure that all staff are ticked off in an efficient and pleasant manner.
Etymology: tick (of the clock) off (as in off home, sign off, off the clock) ticked off (pissed off) tick off (cross off the list as each subordinate leaves the office)
Clockadoodledue
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: klok a doo dell doo
Sentence: Cylla Stration thought it would be a fun job drawing for a comic book company. Until she met her boss, Mr.Art Work. His policy was that no artist left for the day unless they completed a whole comic book. So he sat by the only exit, by the time clock and monitored his staff. No one left until they could clockadoodledue.
Etymology: Clock (time measurement piece) & Doodle (scribble a drawing on paper) & Due (something owed)
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COMMENTS:
clever - Jabberwocky, 2009-06-16: 13:11:00
Cute! - Mustang, 2009-06-17: 00:47:00
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Clockstalk
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: klok/stawk
Sentence: Jim, our obnoxious, irritating, micro manager, clockstalks every employee ensuring that they give 110% of their working time to the company.
Etymology: clock + stalk
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COMMENTS:
Great word with many applications. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-23: 17:47:00
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Clockants
Created by: arrrteest
Pronunciation: klok-ants
Sentence: Angie had been working late for the past few weeks without any complaint or second thought. That is, until she had to leave on time to get home to fix dinner for her fiance's parents. She was clockant as she tip-toed past her boss's office. Breathing a sigh of relief when she cleared the doorway, she looked up and he was right in front of her. "Leaving, are you?" he said in a snooty voice. She pretended not to hear him and slipped out the door.
Etymology: clock, a device for noting the time + ant
Bostard
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: bos tard
Sentence: He was a real bostard and would sit by the door watching the clock just in case some one tried to sneak out before 5:00pm
Etymology: boss + tard
Bossitch
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: bos-itch
Sentence: Mr. Needler Nosey was such a bositch to his employees and only noticed what he presumed was bad behavior.
Etymology: Boss- A person in charge of the company employees. *itch- Slang for a person who complains about everything.
Streptoclockus
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: streptəkläkəs
Sentence: As a new manager Tom has a bad case of streptoclockus. He watches every minute of his new subordinates workdays as if each second was being pulled from his soul.
Etymology: streptococcus (a bacterium of a genus that includes the agents of souring of milk and dental decay, and hemolytic pathogens causing various infections such as scarlet fever and pneumonia) + clock (a mechanical or electrical device for measuring time)
Taskmasterror
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /task-mas-TER-or/
Sentence: Ruth worked late four days out of the week, but she would sometimes have to leave early to pick up her daughter from daycare. On those days her boss, Mr. Petty, would make snide remarks if he saw her getting ready to leave, and she always had a feeling of taskmasterror that he was keeping track of every time she left work early and keeping it in her personnel file.
Etymology: Taskmaster - a person who supervises rigorously the work of others (from Middle English, taske "imposed work, tax" & Old English, magister "great") + Terror - intense, overpowering fear (from Latin, terrēre "to frighten")
Timestapo
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: time-stop-po
Sentence: Michael, the manager, immediately asked why I was walking out the door at 4:58. Of course, the TIMESTAPO don't understand that when your work is complete and your computer is shut down that its pointless to sit around twittling thumbs.
Etymology: time stamp + gestapo
