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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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Hourgrass
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: our/grass
Sentence: Stan was the company hourgrass and would tattle on anyone who took a minute longer for coffee breaks or lunch. He had a special alarm that would sound if the door was opened before 5:00 p.m.
Etymology: hour glass + grass (as in tattle)
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COMMENTS:
Stan sounds like a grasshole! - Nosila, 2009-06-16: 10:48:00
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Timebeing
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: tīmbēing
Sentence: Tom works for the timebeing. That timebeing is his boss. It doesn't seem to matter how much he gets done or that he arrives early and skips lunch, closing time is closing time. Tom and his boss do a mental minute waltz as 5 o'clock approaches. The fact that the boss's office is aligned with the hallway Tom uses for his escape makes him seem something like a troll guarding a bridge.
Etymology: time (the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future) + being (a real or imaginary living creature)
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COMMENTS:
very cerebral - bookowl, 2009-06-16: 16:46:00
creepy - mrskellyscl, 2009-06-16: 16:55:00
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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)
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")
Minutger
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: min - ut - jer
Sentence: Clyde was a brutal minutger. No matter how many hours his employees worked, he monitored every minute that they spent going to the bathroom, eating lunch, or talking to customers. He wanted to make sure that not a minute was ever wasted
Etymology: minute, manager
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.
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
Stimie
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: STY mee
Sentence: Early on in his new job, Ernest made the mistake of working late every day to catch up and to prove himself, thinking that would place him in the boss's good favor. Instead, it means that the boss, who himself doesn't usually hit the office until 10 am, has now forgotten Ernest's actual contract hours and assumes he will always be there until 7 pm. So now when Ernest decides to leave on time (5 pm) to actually spend time with his family, he is stimied at every turn by the boss's obvious disapproval. The boss likes to do such things as staring pointedly at his watch, sighing loudly and saying, "I guess I'll have to stay and finish things by myself tonight since there won't be anyone here to help," and making comments about how "people who are team players will the ones to keep their jobs when cuts are made." The funny thing is, Ernest has actually begun to feel guilty and acts apologetic as he is leaving (on time).
Etymology: time + stymie (to frustrate, hinder, or thwart)
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COMMENTS:
Truer words never spoken... - Nosila, 2010-06-29: 19:25:00
My first thought was "clocksucker" but then I figured I had already put in my share of vulgarity a couple of months ago with "dicktionary," "motherducker," and "bitchnessperson."
- karenanne, 2010-06-29: 19:40:00
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Chronintimidate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: krawn-in-TIM-eh-dayt
Sentence: The new office manager moved his desk to the area next to the door and hung a huge clock on the wall just above his head and anytime anyone appeared to be on the way out early he would chronintimidate them by pointing to the clock and shaking his head.
Etymology: Blend of chronometer (clock) and intimidate.
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)
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