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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.
Verboticisms
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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:
Good one! - Mustang, 2009-06-17: 00:45:00
this is priceless! - mweinmann, 2009-06-17: 07:46:00
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Latekeeper
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: lātkēpər
Sentence: The rule at Jill’s office is to calculate time cards in 15-minute increments. What that often means is that her boss, will engage her in a conversation for 14 minutes past her scheduled work day. The other trick that this latekeeper will employ is to wait until he hears the click of the time clock to exit his office to ask for a progress report on her various projects.
Etymology: late (doing something or taking place after the expected, proper, or usual time) + gatekeeper (a person or thing that controls access to something)
Slackervise
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: slak'-ər-vīz'
Sentence: Fred's secretary Ethel had arrived seventy-seven seconds past her forty-minute allotted lunch period, so Fred made sure to slackervise even more diligently than usual to insure she made up the time at actual work before leaving for the evening; at her claimed typing speed of 110 wpm, that should work out to an extra 141.16667 words for the day.
Etymology: 'slacker,' less taut; 'vise,' device for holding objects firmly in place.
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COMMENTS:
Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-23: 17:50:00
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Chronologre
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kruh-nol-oh-ger
Sentence: Cindy's boss can be a real chronologre when he wants to be. He acts like you are stealing from him personally if you clock out even a minute early. Maybe if he had the skill or drive to do something really useful life would be different.
Etymology: chronology (the arrangement of dates, events, etc, in order of occurrence) + ogre (a monstrously ugly, cruel, or barbarous person)
Theagonyoftheexitsee
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: the/agony/and/the/exit/see
Sentence: Every Friday the staff suffered from theagonyandtheexitsee as they tried to creep past Hal the monitor.
Etymology: the agony and the ecstasy + exit + see
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COMMENTS:
Clever word compilation! - mrskellyscl, 2009-06-16: 16:53:00
Love it! - Nosila, 2009-06-17: 01:36:00
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Gotchawatcher
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Got-char-wat-chur
Sentence: Bob knew that he wouldn't be able to leave work early, as the gotchawatcher had his eye on him.
Etymology: Got you + watcher = Gotchawatcher
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COMMENTS:
clever - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-23: 09:03:00
like it! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-23: 17:48:00
I used to work for that guy too. - Mustang, 2008-04-23: 21:56:00
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Tocktickrelationship
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: tok tik ree lay shun ship
Sentence: The interaction, which had always borne the hallmarks of a tocktickrelationship ended badly. The subsequent surgical attempts to reverse the offense which led to its demise proved unsuccessful, leading to extreme embarassment every time her now ex-boss had to travel abroad. He would regularly be stopped and stripsearched at airports and advised by security staff that it was the first time they had found somebody trying to smuggle a twenty dollar watch out of the country using that particular technique.
Etymology: tock tick, toxic relationship
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COMMENTS:
reminds me of the crocodile in Peter Pan but then that would be a croctocktickrelationship - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-23: 08:59:00
But this is just pretend so it is a mocktocktickrelationship, but if it was in the clinic, it would be a doctocktickrelationship or in a gym, a jocktocktickrelationship or in a hosiery store, a socktocktickrelationship...it's endless possibilities! - Nosila, 2008-04-23: 20:34:00
...or between sports acne physicians, a pockmarkjockdoctocktickrelationship - stache, 2008-04-23: 21:57:00
What have I begun? - galwaywegian, 2008-04-24: 04:40:00
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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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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)
Metermaidservant
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Rita is a lovely metermaidservant who worships the clock.
Etymology: meter maid + maid servant
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
stache - 2008-04-23: 22:10:00
slackervisor looks a little like hank hill.
daniellegeorge - 2008-04-24: 13:17:00
clockblock is genius
- 2008-07-27: 19:30:00
nice words
bob - 2008-07-27: 22:57:00
nice stuff!
wordmeister - 2008-07-27: 23:43:00
Timely words today
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
Where is everybody today? Vacations galore?
monkey88 - 2011-11-18: 01:36:00