Verboticisms

Created by: jesster

Pronunciation: Ne - pot - o -mised

Sentence: Cindy was a good person to know if you wanted a job at MegaCorp. Her position in HR allowed her to nepotomize competing resumes before passing them on to the hiring manager. Introducing a few typos and deleting a handful of keywords was usually sufficient to take care of the average applicant. Managerial candidates were her favorite though - she had even written a Word macro that would automatically find any instance of "lead initiative" and change it to "blocked initiative." Of course, any resume submitted in PDF format had to be deleted from the system.

Etymology: Neptotism (to favor friends or family in hiring practices) + lobotomize (to surgically cut the connections to and from, or simply destroy, the prefrontal cortex, potentially resulting in mental retardation)

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Created by: Lapper

Pronunciation: rep-LURG-a-toe-ree

Sentence: Jack's manager-to-be shredded Jack's résumé before he even opened the envelope, leaving Jack in a state of replurgatory for weeks.

Etymology: A portmanteau of "reply" and "purgatory".

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Created by: sboycee

Pronunciation: sub-snub

Sentence: His application was subsnubbed by the asses at the bank.

Etymology: submit + snub

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Created by: texmom

Pronunciation: re ject a moan e

Sentence: That is the fifteenth rejectamony for my job application this month!

Etymology: reject - turn down amony - like.. from the Latin, ok it just sounded right.

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: kurr ick you lum vack youm

Sentence: His resume was sucken into the curriculumvacuum, tearing off a large chunk of his self-confidence as it sped toward the void

Etymology: curriculum vitae vacuum

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COMMENTS:

Fantastic! I think this is where I'm supposed to pull content for the class I was hired to teach this summer. Would it have killed them to get textbooks? - ErWenn, 2007-06-27: 06:40:00

All right! - Clayton, 2007-06-27: 21:04:00

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Created by: missmurder

Pronunciation: frai-su-may

Sentence: It sucks when you get a fresume.

Etymology: failed+resume

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: void-mail Can't make it any easier than that.

Sentence: Hannah compulsively applied for all of the vacant positions that appeared in the Little Piddlington Gazette, but had not yet received even an acknowledgement. She blamed it on voidmail, a strange virus that had migrated from email to snail mail. But the real problem was that Hannah's reputation was well known by all the employers in Little Piddlington. No one was prepared to take on her gloomy mien and manic depression tempered with occasional bouts of tourette's syndrome.

Etymology: voicemail + void

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈæpləˌkoʊldˌʃoʊldɚ/

Sentence: For some reason, when I submitted my resume to join the Rockettes, I just got the applicold-shoulder

Etymology: From application + cold-shoulder

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: flop-oh-si-shunned

Sentence: His resume was stellar, so why was he flopositioned every time he submitted it? What a poor businix decision on their part. Perhaps he should have just submitted a crapplication. Or maybe he should just stop applying to large abyssnesses altogether.

Etymology: flop, proposition

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: sub-mist-owt

Sentence: i'd submissedout non-stop for the last month and then realised i'd forgot to put a contact number on my resume

Etymology: submission, missed out

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: null-app-lie

Sentence: Not only was Fred's proposal nullapplied, his pay cheques mysteriously stopped being processed.

Etymology: null (nothing,nil) + apply

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Created by: administraitor

Pronunciation: dis-miss-a-point-ment

Sentence: 160 unanswered applications later, Jack D. Ripper could not fathom his run of dismissappointment. "Why don't they call me?" he whined.

Etymology: dismiss + disappoint + appointment + miss

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I like the play on words. - texmom, 2007-06-27: 22:25:00

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Created by: whimsy

Pronunciation: snuhb-MIT

Sentence: Tom turned in his application with perfect faith in his immaculate resume, only to be dealt a devastating blow when he realized he only snubmitted the form in vain.

Etymology: snub + submit

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Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: No-res-pawn-dense

Sentence: I was saddened to realize I was "too old" for the job. After 40 years in college training in lifeguarding, it turns out the only qualifications you need are youth and looks.

Etymology: Correspondence (mail) + no response (without an answer)

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Created by: Clayton

Pronunciation: ap-li-BIL-yuhs

Sentence: Philip became applibilious whenever he didn't receive a rejection letter. The only thing he hated worse than failure was the failure to fail properly.

Etymology: application + atrabilious

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The sentence did it for me,have my vote 8-) - grasshopper, 2007-06-27: 12:41:00

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Created by: grasshopper

Pronunciation: non/relayt/if/act/ion

Sentence: Human Relations at our company is known for nonrelaytifcation causing many potential clients anxiety attacks.

Etymology: non/none, relayt/relations(as in human relations), if/maybe,maybe not, cat/action, ion/satisfaction

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Created by: kikiec83

Pronunciation: PUR-FECK-AH-SKRU

Sentence: While Egor believed a "Carrie" theme was incredibly appropriate for their senior prom, the student body exec board's immediate revocation of his invite was an apparent perfectascrew.

Etymology: Middle English parfit, from Anglo-French, from Latin perfectus, to carry out, from per- thoroughly to make, do; scrue, usually vulgar, fucked, rejected

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Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: rehs-pohns-lehs-nehs

Sentence: The responselessness rid him of the remaining life he had as a sanitary engineer.

Etymology: response + -less [none] + -ness [noun]

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: ex/pec/ta/shunned

Sentence: His hopes were high, the job description was written for him, but unfortunately he was expectashunned out of this perfect opprotunity.

Etymology: expectation + shunned

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Created by: jasmine90909

Pronunciation: (rez-im-U-ated)

Sentence: I sent in my resume, but the guy resimuated me.

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: reh-zoo-NAY

Sentence: Alex resunayed the entire accordion sales industry in town--perhaps moving to another state could get a response.

Etymology: resumé + nay

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I thought of the same word this AM. What a verboddity. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-27: 09:21:00

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Created by: micheles

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Created by: blondibabi121692

Pronunciation: crapped uh pon

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