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DEFINITION: v. To expire, pass away or kick the bucket while at the office; often occurs when someone is overworked, underpaid, and desperately trying to hang on for a full pension. n. A person who has been suddenly, and permanently, terminated while a work.
Verboticisms
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Employded
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: em-ploi-ded
Sentence: Ralph worked on the overnight crew. His co-workers knew he often stayed beyond his prescribed time. What they didn't know was that Ralph had passed from employed to employeded, from a member of the graveyard shift to a graveyard stiff. If Mary hadn't gone to Ralph's office to retrieve her stapler, he might still be there still.
Etymology: employed (having a job) + dead (deceased)
Employcroakment
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: emm-ploy-croke-ment
Sentence: Troy knew that employcroakment was in his future, so he made sure that he always wore clean underwear to work.
Etymology: employment + croak
Tombinate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: toom in ayt
Sentence: Overworked and stressed, Bob finally had enough one day and collapsed at his desk. The EMT's were unable to save him, so he expired while on the clock. Bob had worked at the company for over 30 years until he decided to tombinate his employment. Bob sold life insurance, his specialty was sudden death cases. But sadly this underwriter is now in the underworld.
Etymology: Tomb (a place for the burial of a corpse) & Terminate (bring to an end or halt;concluding the employment of)
Myocardialinfraction
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: my-oh-card-yal-in-FRACK-shun
Sentence: Elwood committed the ultimate myocardialinfraction by having a fatal heart attack mere weeks before he was to have gained eligibility for a comfortable retirement package.
Etymology: Blend of 'myocardial' (relating to the tissue of the heart) and 'infraction' (breach; violation; infringement) -- a word play on the medical term myocardial infarction.
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COMMENTS:
nice combo - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-30: 12:51:00
I wonder if they docked his last paycheck for this "infraction" - mweinmann, 2009-03-30: 16:37:00
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Jobcorpse
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: job corpse
Sentence: Be careful, for there is distress in any job corps. Don't let it become a deathstress and turn you into a jobcorpse!
Etymology: JOB - work. CORPSE - a dead body. JOB CORPS - any job group or work force. It has become widely used to refer to a goverment job training program for teens and very young adults, but can mean any job group or work force.
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COMMENTS:
Is this an elite group? Great word! - rombus, 2009-03-30: 08:29:00
Awesome word! - kateinkorea, 2009-03-30: 10:01:00
Perhaps, Rombus, for after all people are dying to get in! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-30: 11:25:00
nice word but disturbing concept - this would have been a good definition for Halloween - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-30: 12:50:00
scary thought.....I'll try to take this advice myself!! Great Word! - mweinmann, 2009-03-30: 16:34:00
Excellent word - many interpretations. It is frightening that we often make corpses out of our youth. But aside from that, I do sometimes feel like a jobcorpse at work... - splendiction, 2009-03-30: 20:13:00
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Deadicated
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dedikātid
Sentence: Everybody thought Bob was a dedicated worker. He was in his office when people arrived in the morning and there when they left. Last week they discovered that he was a deadicated, desiccated worker. His bosses now have the difficult task of determining just when he passed away and how much pay should be retrieved from his estate.
Etymology: dead (no longer alive) + dedicated (devote time, effort, or oneself to a particular task or purpose)
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COMMENTS:
:) - galwaywegian, 2010-10-12: 06:43:00
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Dieretiring
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: di + ree + tire + ing
Sentence: To dieretiring is to keep working way past the time that you should mentally and physically just to try to collect more money at retirement.
Etymology: Die, Dire, Retiring, "Die Trying".....
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COMMENTS:
ooh - know a few of those - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-30: 12:46:00
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Mortifired
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: mohr-tih-fie-errd
Sentence: Chipper had been mortifired, but left smiling. After a life-time of entry-level service to the company, Chipper was at long last over everyone. Now, floating above the computers, the waste paper baskets, the file cabinets, he was having his very own out-of-body experience. If he could have spoken, he would have told young Audrey and Adam, over there by the water cooler that he cheerfully bequeathed them the contents of his desk.
Etymology: A play on MORTIFIED (from MORT, the French for death) meaning to be humiliated + FIRED, meaning to be let go from a job, dismissed
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COMMENTS:
really liked this word - mweinmann, 2009-03-30: 16:34:00
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Oreyepeefortyfive
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: orr eye peee for tee fye v
Sentence: Gecko smiled as the oreyepeefortyfive was carried past his office. Another saving for the pension fund
Etymology: R.I P. P.45
Exexecutive
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: eks eks ek yew tiv
Sentence: John went from clerk to supervisor to senior supervisor to junior executive, to senior executive to exexecutive in four years two months, a record in the department. Nobody knew hie surname.
Etymology: executive, ex
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COMMENTS:
work will kill you - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-30: 12:47:00
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Comments:
silveryaspen - 2009-03-30: 02:06:00
Song of the Day: "Take this Job and Shove It" ... or should that be shovel it?!!!
Shovel it, about six feet under ~ James