Verboticism: Crassistant
DEFINITION: n. A cashier or customer service representative who is so busy chatting with their friends or coworkers that they ignore their customers. v. To be serviced by a very annoying customer service representative.
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Tillshy
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: TILL-shy
Sentence: Why don't you shop on-line, and stop rudely interrupting my day, was the routine retort to customers from the tillshy, check-out "chick".
Etymology: Combination of TILL: drawer for money in cash-register etc., & SHY: as in workshy - to be afraid of.
Custymied
Created by: Rutilus
Pronunciation: Cus-time-eed
Sentence: Jackie couldn't believe how poor service was in the UK compared to the states. She was sick of being custymied by surly shop assistants. Bring on the flight back to LA!
Etymology: Customer - buyer, client; stymied - obstructed, blocked
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COMMENTS:
Excellent blend. - Mustang, 2008-05-13: 20:26:00
very nice - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-15: 06:36:00
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Salesassholestant
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: sales-ass-hol-sternt
Sentence: i chose to leave the store rather than hand over money to that salesassholestant
Etymology: sales assistant, asshole
Malcontedant
Created by: didsbury
Pronunciation: mal-conn-ten-dant
Sentence: I am in a hurry but the staff in this shop are all such malcontendants there is no one who will serve me.
Etymology: Combination of malcontent and attendant. First used by Mark Twain to describe a particularly slovenly, family-run restaurant he visited in Mississippi. The restaurant gained notoriety and indeed some short lived success until it was forcibly closed by the owners who had a sense of humour failure when even physical abuse of the clientele wasn't enough to deter the hordes of malcontent-watchers.
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COMMENTS:
very nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-13: 15:40:00
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Clashier
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: cla/sheer
Sentence: Most customer dissatisfaction is caused by confrontational clashiers who hate their jobs and looking for a fight.
Etymology: clash + cashier
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COMMENTS:
which begs the Clash question "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-13: 13:10:00
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Reprehensitive
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: rep - re - HENS - uh - tiv
Sentence: Gabrielle was appalled at the abysmal response of the customer service reprehensitive who seemed not to even notice her even though she made several attempts to gain his attention.
Etymology: Blend of 'reprehensible' ( Deserving rebuke or censure; blameworthy)and 'representative' (One that serves as a delegate or agent for another)
Snubscribe
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: snub skrybe
Sentence: "It's no wonder people shoplift", Betty thought as she waited yet again at Customer Service to make a payment on her layaway. The cashier was going to snubscribe her again because he was too busy yakking on his cellphone on a social call. Fed up, she went to the Store Manager and told him loudly that the hardest part about shopping there was the fact that you had to wait endlessly for them to take your money. The Store Manager would have responded to her sooner, but he was too busy texting someone...
Etymology: Snub (refuse to acknowledge;ignore) & Subscribe (receive or obtain by regular payment;pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals)
Steveclerkel
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: Steve+Clerk-ol
Sentence: The line growing increasingly longer, the SteveClerkel, immersed in his conversation with his girfriend couldn't sense that everyone in line wanted to strangle him.
Etymology: Steve Urkel (the annoying TV character) + Clerk
Patronagent
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /pey-trun-EY-jent/
Sentence: Denise was a regular customer at Le Chic Boutique, but the new patronagent at the counter treated her as if she were some person off the street, and pointedly ignored her for several minutes while chitchatting with his coworker before snatching her credit card, and then slamming a pen and receipt down in front of her. She was infuriated at his rude behavior... yet strangely turned on, too.
Etymology: Patronage - a condescending manner or attitude in dealing with people; patronizing (from Old French, patroniser "power to give favors") + Agent - a representative of a business or firm (from Latin, agentum "one who acts or conducts action")
Customerswervice
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: cus/tum/ur/swurv/iss
Sentence: Customerswervice was so bad that I couldn't even make eye contact with the cashier let alone pay for my purchases.
Etymology: customer service + swerve
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COMMENTS:
They also swerve who only fail to wait on us. Good one. - Mustang, 2008-05-13: 20:24:00
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