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.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Jobcorpse: /job corpse/ 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. Created by: silveryaspen.
Comments on Jobcorpse:
rombus, 2009-03-30: 08:29:00
Is this an elite group? Great word!kateinkorea, 2009-03-30: 10:01:00
Awesome word!silveryaspen, 2009-03-30: 11:25:00
Perhaps, Rombus, for after all people are dying to get in!Jabberwocky, 2009-03-30: 12:50:00
nice word but disturbing concept – this would have been a good definition for Halloweenmweinmann, 2009-03-30: 16:34:00
scary thought…..I’ll try to take this advice myself!! Great Word!splendiction, 2009-03-30: 20:13:00
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…
Avocadaver: /a-vo-ca-da-ver/ No one really knew Allen, even though he had worked in the office for almost 30 years. He was such a conscientious employee that he was often seen sitting at his desk in his cubicle at all hours of the day and night. He even kept a spare suit in his office and a drawer full of snacks, so it never occurred to anyone that there could be an avocadaver in the corner cubbie for nearly a week. When the office began to reek, the other employees all started to accuse their coworkers of leaving a tuna sandwich or something worse sitting out somewhere. Everyone denied that it was their sandwich and declared that it wasn’t their responsibility to clean it up. So they all kept working and pretended they didn’t smell anything. Etymology: avocation — profession, occupation: cadaver — dead body Created by: mrskellyscl.
Comments on Avocadaver:
galwaywegian, 2009-03-30: 07:03:00
nice one mrs kellysilveryaspen, 2009-03-30: 11:09:00
Great choice of words and blending that really fit the definitions. Terrorific word!Jabberwocky, 2009-03-30: 12:44:00
funnymweinmann, 2009-03-30: 16:37:00
hilarious and so stereotypical of the “environment” in which so many of us work….petaj, 2009-03-31: 05:14:00
So what finally killed him off? Poison avocado?
Expirouette: /ex-peer-oo-et/ 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 Created by: Jabberwocky.
Comments on Expirouette:
galwaywegian, 2009-03-30: 07:08:00
does that make her an expirimaballerina? good conceptsilveryaspen, 2009-03-30: 11:17:00
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: 19:08:00
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”readerwriter, 2009-03-30: 19:12:00
(From Eclesiastes…) With a time to dance and a time to die, Silvery!silveryaspen, 2009-03-30: 19:17:00
Yes, readerwriter the song is based on that Biblical verse!Nosila, 2009-03-30: 22:10:00
TuTu much, JW! And if she fell on the stage she’d be a ballet slipper!Nosila, 2009-03-30: 22:20:00
This must be where the term “corpse de ballet” originated!
Mortifired: /mohr-tih-fie-errd/ Chipper had been mortifired, but left smiling. After a life-time of entry-level service to the company, Chipper was at long last over everyone. Now, floating above the computers, the waste paper baskets, the file cabinets, he was having his very own out-of-body experience. If he could have spoken, he would have told young Audrey and Adam, over there by the water cooler that he cheerfully bequeathed them the contents of his desk. Etymology: A play on MORTIFIED (from MORT, the French for death) meaning to be humiliated + FIRED, meaning to be let go from a job, dismissed Created by: readerwriter.
Comments on Mortifired:
mweinmann, 2009-03-30: 16:34:00
really liked this word
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