Verboticism: Employcroakment
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.
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Expirouette
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ex/peer/oo/et
Sentence: The aging ballerina was determined to dance until her dying day and thus it was very appropriate that her swan song came as an expirouette while teaching a group of young dancers how to spin.
Etymology: expire + pirouette
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COMMENTS:
does that make her an expirimaballerina? good concept - galwaywegian, 2009-03-30: 07:08:00
My! My! How incredibly well you turn a phrase! Amazing how you can take an appalling situation and create such an appealing word! Maybe because it was such a graceful exit. Outstanding! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-30: 11:17:00
Expirouette played around in my mind all day ... along with the line of that great 60's song "To everything there is a season, Turn. Turn. Turn" - silveryaspen, 2009-03-30: 19:08:00
(From Eclesiastes...) With a time to dance and a time to die, Silvery! - readerwriter, 2009-03-30: 19:12:00
Yes, readerwriter the song is based on that Biblical verse! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-30: 19:17:00
TuTu much, JW! And if she fell on the stage she'd be a ballet slipper! - Nosila, 2009-03-30: 22:10:00
This must be where the term "corpse de ballet" originated! - Nosila, 2009-03-30: 22:20:00
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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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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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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)
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
Diehardworker
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: DIE HARD WOR ker
Sentence: “Death by deadlines” was what they wrote on his tombstone. But Charles’s dead end job became the death of him. Charles was always working hard while those around him were hardly working. His diehard devotion to his hard work ethics made him the diehardworker of the year…when he retired permanently of a heart attack.
Etymology: DIEHARD: Firmly, often unreasonably immovable in purpose or will HARDWORKER: Someone who works hard DIE:
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COMMENTS:
Excellent etymology! Excellent verbotomy! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-30: 11:07:00
and if you believe in reincarnation you could have diehardworker2 - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-30: 12:46:00
Awesome word - especially the "death by deadlines" and " working hard while others were hardly working"! - ha ha, sad, though too. - splendiction, 2009-03-30: 20:16:00
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Ripfortyfive
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: or eye pee for tee fyve
Sentence: his acceptance of his ripfortyfive save the company a fortune on a pension
Etymology: RIP P45
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)
Exitploitation
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: ex it ploy tay shun
Sentence: Poor Bob, as it actually turned out, had accepted the clerk's position as a deadendtry level job. For most of his life, he desklaboured in the sweaty, dimly-lit office for long hours, short pay, with dreams of his retirement. His exitploitation came with a stroke after realizing he'd wasted pension savings on shares in the flailing company.
Etymology: From exploitation (disuse a huge portion of the populus to increase the wealth of few) and exit (leave, or in this case, die).
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COMMENTS:
So true and sad that it happens more than it should. Exitploitation's meaning is so readily apparent and has a powerful impact immediately. Greate Creation! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-30: 19:25:00
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Acutedeceasedpensionfund
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: Ah-cute-de-ceased-pen-shun-fund
Sentence: Old single Mr.Workaholic, dropped dead in his office from overworking and over stressing. Busybody Betty and Geeky Gary were chatting away at the office water cooler about, "what good is an "acutedeceasedpensionfund" if you over work your life away with a long term career and croak before an employee could ever collect any pension money for such hard work?"
Etymology: Acute;a rapid onset; Deceased;No longer living. Pensionfund;A pension fund is a pool of assets forming an independent legal entity that are bought with the contributions to a pension plan for the exclusive purpose of financing pension plan benefits for when a person retires or leaves a company... ~:-0 Acutedeceasedpensionfund;The fact that a pensionfund "ceases to exist when you're deceased."
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COMMENTS:
I LIKE it verrrrry much! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-31: 02:33:00
Thank you! Magnanimous-Metrohumanx :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-01: 16:50:00
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