Verboticism: Fantasimulabor

'It's all strategic positioning.'

DEFINITION: v. To create an illusion of busyness so that your co-workers, and most importantly your boss, never realize that you have absolutely nothing to do. n. A person who pretends to be very busy.

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Fantasimulabor

metrohumanx

Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: FANT-UH-SIM-YOU-LAY-BURR

Sentence: Since reading was prohibited at the library's circulation desk, everyone engaged in various degrees of FANTASIMULABOR. One portly cretin had been at it for so long that she actually believed FANTASIMULABOR would bring her academic accolades aplenty. Using smoke and mirrors, she had turned PROductivity into CONductivity. Her work ethic was so well camouflaged as to be completely undetectable, and the deception was made complete by her total lack of anything resembling a personality.

Etymology: FANTAsy+SIMUlated+LABOR

Points: 665

Comments: Fantasimulabor

metrohumanx - 2008-07-17: 00:56:00
I LOVE retirement! Ars longa vita brevis.

Jabberwocky - 2008-07-17: 14:10:00
great sentence

OZZIEBOB - 2008-07-20: 07:15:00
She should read "Personality for Dummies" Terrific sentence.