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DEFINITION: n. A momentary feeling of relief mixed with lingering dread, which occurs when your boss marches past the piles of unfinished work on your desk. v. To sigh with relief after your boss marches past your desk
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Dawdleangst
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: DAH - dl - angst
Sentence: Having frittered away much of the afternoon on the assumption that his boss was away for the day, Bernard suffered a sudden and severe attack of dawdleangst when his boss walked by and saw the mounds of unfinished paperwork on the desk.
Etymology: Blend of 'dawdle' (to waste time; idle; trifle; loiter) and 'angst' (a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish)
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COMMENTS:
DAWDLEANGST is best cured by a "donut run"... - metrohumanx, 2008-08-04: 06:44:00
Better still, a coffee! - Wordotwist, 2008-08-05: 10:51:00
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Allayoffment
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: a/lay/off/ment
Sentence: A wave of allayoffment passed over him as he narrowly escaped being asked to produce last week's revenue figures.
Etymology: allayment (relief) + lay off (as in being fired)
Disamiss
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: Dis-ah-mis
Sentence: I couldn't help but feel disamiss when my boss flew past my stack of unfinished applications with his head in a cheeseburger.
Etymology: Dismiss (to be fired from ones job) + amiss (faulty or wrong; as in not doing ones paperwork)
Repsychment
Created by: geoamnesia
Pronunciation: rE + sI - k + ment
Sentence: The day was going quite well until Dan passed my desk, (did he notice the report that was due last week?) the rest of the day went by in a cloud of deep repsychment.
Etymology: A recurring psychological moment best known to proficient procrastinators.
Stressurerush
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: stresh/er/rush
Sentence: When the boss is on a rampage looking to yell and dump on someone and Jenny's desk is backlogged and piled high, she goes into a stressurerush when he storms past.
Etymology: STRESSURERUSH - noun - from - STRESS + PRESSURE + RUSH
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COMMENTS:
STRESSURERUSH...the hidden killer. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-04: 06:39:00
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Circleshirk
Created by: kendriveset
Pronunciation: cir-cle-sherk
Sentence: Debbie liked to circleshirk whenever her supervisor, Bob, tried to micro-manage. Sometimes it even made the boring day at work kind of exciting, yet fearful.
Etymology: circle + shirk: to hide amidst the piles of work to avoid work/the boss.
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COMMENTS:
cute - Nosila, 2010-01-05: 18:47:00
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Avoideliefear
Created by: bubbos
Pronunciation: a-void-e-lea-fear
Sentence: At the sound of the thundering footsteps, a sudden feeling of avoideliefear has overwhelmed my pretty blonde head.
Etymology: avoid - the boss relief - he doesn't know it's you fear - that he will find out
Hypermyspactivity
Created by: administraitor
Pronunciation: hai-per-mai-spac-ti-vi-ti
Sentence: Realizing that he'd spent an entire morning on the Internet, George experienced a flood of hypermyspactivity when he noticed his boss contemplating his remaining workload
Etymology: hyperactivity + "My Space"
Repentafacebookaphobia
Created by: couv78
Pronunciation: Repent-ah-facebook-ah-phobia
Sentence: Evrytime Mr. H comes by my desk its a mad dash to shut down my internet explorer. I think I have repentafacebookaphobia...but it passes.
Etymology:
Exhaletothechief
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: eks hayl too the cheef
Sentence: Miriam worked for the President of their firm. Technically called an Executive Adminstrator, she soon learned that the title actually meant slave and dog's body to Mr. Stinkin' Lincoln. He did his MBA tour each day (Management By Annoyance) and harassed her and the other staff to work harder and faster. The irony was that he did not even know what Miriam did for him in a day. After his morning passover, she would exhaletothechief and get on with her real work. If only Mr. Lincoln knew how much energy and productivity was utilized by his staff in avoiding him and his daily tours and that they could get more done when he was not around.
Etymology: Exhale (heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily) & The Chief (The Boss,a person who exercises control over workers) & play on "Hail to the Chief"(which is a march primarily associated with the President of the United States. Its playing accompanies the appearance of the President at many public appearances.)
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COMMENTS:
Very good! I especially enjoyed MBA. - artr, 2010-01-05: 04:30:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by cohenarie. It is also inspired by Timothy Johnson's book "GUST" where he advises that the first thing you have to realize about office politics is that it's a game. Thank you Cohenarie and Timothy! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by cohenarie. Thank you cohenarie. ~ James