DEFINITION: v. To call a phone “help line” and spend 45 minutes pushing buttons and screaming at dumb voice-recognition system, before being automatically disconnected. n. A push-button or voice-activated phone menu system designed to irritate those who use it.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Vexmail: /veks mayl/ When Bruce tried calling the phone company to extend the minutes on his phone, he had to go through no less than 20 prompts of vexmail to reach the person he needed. By that point the call was moot because he had stomped his phone in an act of cellacide and put it into receivership. Etymology: Vex (irritate, annoy) & Voicemail (automated phone message system) Created by: Nosila.
Autohated: /aw-tuh-heyt-ed/ After receiving hundreds of complaints about uneven treatment by customer-service reps – helpful and cordial one day, rude and uncaring the next – company executives decided that the only way to be fair and treat the entire public the same was to install an autohated voice mail system that would frustrate and hang up on everyone equally. They seem happy that the call volume has dropped dramatically. Etymology: automated (to operate or control with a minimum of human interaction)+ hated (the object of extreme aversion or hostility) Created by: artr.
Menugravation: /men-yew-greh-VAY-shun/ Suffering a great deal of menugravation after 30 grueling minutes of trying to shuffle thru the tedious menu at his phone provider, Verne gave up in exasperation and sent in a check to pay his phone bill. Etymology: Blend of ‘menu’ (list of choices) and ‘aggravation’ (an act or circumstance that intensifies or makes worse) Created by: Mustang.
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