DEFINITION: n. A momentary feeling of relief mixed with lingering dread, which occurs when your boss marches past the piles of unfinished work on your desk.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Loproductingle: /lo-PROD-uct-EEN-gull/ Sensing an evil presence nearby, Casper threw a spreadsheet over his Minesweeper game just in time to see the Library Director sweep past like the grim fog from a defiled graveyard.
Slowly, a LOPRODUCTINGLE spread over him as every cell in his database quivered like a child caught in a lie.
“I hope you’re working on those usage reports.” Pat said with a pseudofriendly voice that belied the hateful look in her cold grey administrative eye. “OH YEAH !” He stammered, only to regret his lack of a more creative reply. Casper’s eyes never wandered from the monitor until she floated wraith-like into her office. Relieved that the moment had passed, he began to relax, but the LOPRODUCTINGLE returned like the rising tide of fear he felt in his coffee-filled bladder. An out-of-body sensation stupefied his mind as he catalogued all the woes this encounter could bring to his pleasantly mundane life. He minimized the screen which mocked his defiance and resumed play in the minefield of academic employment…
Etymology: LOw+PRODUCTivity+tINGLE=LOPRODUCTINGLE
low: relatively small BS output….
productivity: a measure of useful work….tingle: to feel a ringing, stinging, prickling, or thrilling sensation Created by: metrohumanx.
Comments on Loproductingle:
metrohumanx, 2008-08-04: 06:33:00
The above incident is a product of fiction and bears no resemblance to any persons, living or undead.metrohumanx, 2008-08-04: 06:34:00
http://www.ifla.org/I/humour/humour.htmmetrohumanx, 2008-08-04: 06:35:00
Live it or live WITH it!metrohumanx, 2008-08-04: 06:44:00
WOW! Verbotomists get up pretty early !Nosila, 2008-08-04: 17:52:00
Loproductingle…I thought it was a stroke (of genius!)Nosila, 2008-08-04: 23:39:00
Some of us verbotimists go to bed late…depends on your time zone!Wordotwist, 2008-08-05: 10:56:00
Sounds like a jingle!
Squirmpile: /SKWURM-pahyl/ As files began to stack higher and higher in Bob’s in-tray, fellow workers realized that it was a clever ploy to avoid the boss’s glare and hide his own squirmpile. Etymology: SQUIRM: to feel or display discomfort or distress, as from reproof, embarrassment, pain, etc & PILE: an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other: a pile of papers. Created by: OZZIEBOB.
Comments on Squirmpile:
metrohumanx, 2008-08-04: 06:40:00
SQUIRMPILE…disturbingly vivid image.pungineer, 2008-08-04: 09:18:00
Is that also what you get from cold office chairs and too many donut runs?Nosila, 2008-08-04: 17:48:00
Good word…I think most people have squirmpiles at work!
Perplexfiles: /pur plecks fyles/ Suzy had that perplexfiles feeling again. What to hide away, what to look busy doing and what to let her boss see her working on. Her boss, Alvin, was on one of his rampages again. It was his idea of motivating and supervising his staff, he thought. He’d roam through the office, looking for flaws and then act all dramatic about what he found. Most of the staff kept out of his way when he went on these rants…bathroom breaks, lunch at 10:00 am or going to that doctor’s appointment. Alvin was such a diva, like he was the one upon whom all productivity depended. Luckily for Suzy and staff, he only did it when he was sober, so it did not happen very often! Etymology: perplex (bewildering, mystery,complcated) & files (a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together) & for rhyming X Files (The truth is out there…I want to believe…) Created by: Nosila.
Comments on Perplexfiles:
metrohumanx, 2008-08-04: 06:38:00
The grunts are gruntled. Good worl, Nosila!pungineer, 2008-08-04: 09:22:00
It must be a case for Moldy & Scolder!
Shirkload: /shirk+load/ Elijah realised the open plan office vortex of no to slow productivity had struck again and that there were actual dust particles on the shirkload piled up on his desk. The Henderson files on the top were supposed to have been completed an hour ago and on the bosses’ desk by now – ‘Oh look a paper clip on the floor!’ – he dived and held his breath as his stomach churned – he could smell the halitosis…his boss was back from lunch… Etymology: shirk – to avoid honest toil
+ load – a unit of honest toil
[used as a noun and or a verb – a heavy shirkload or to be caught shirkloading]
Created by: pungineer.
Comments on Shirkload:
metrohumanx, 2008-08-04: 06:42:00
SHIRKLOAD- nice ring to it…
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