DEFINITION: v. To propose and win approval for cost-saving reforms, which when implemented result in the immediate elimination of your job. n. An ambitious budget-slasher who accidentally cuts themselves out of a job.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Jobicide: /job-i-cide
/ Joe, in a cost cutting measure in his department committed jobicide.
Etymology: job + suicide
Created by: Stevenson0.
Comments on Jobicide:
splendiction, 2009-07-08: 23:32:00
Jobicide is a perfect word for the definition.mweinmann, 2009-07-09: 08:42:00
a do it your selfer…like it.
Efficiencease: /Rhymes with “efficiencies”/ Oops! My efficiency plan for the company means that my job is now lost! I’ve made my own efficiencease!
Etymology: A play on efficiencies. efficient + cease Created by: splendiction.
Comments on Efficiencease:
Nosila, 2009-07-08: 13:21:00
Employmentally challenged!splendiction, 2009-07-08: 23:27:00
Ha!
Accolaidoff: /acco-layde-off/ In addition to being lauded as an environmental champion for turning the parking lot into a green space, I also received an accolaidoff as my position as parking lot attendant was no longer viable Etymology: accolade(acknowledgment of merit)+ laid off Created by: Jabberwocky.
Comments on Accolaidoff:
mweinmann, 2009-07-09: 08:43:00
oh clever one….
Hegonomiser: /he gawn o myzer/ Laurence was hired to curb the fiscal waste in his company. He made many enemies of his co-workers, who were used to spending their expenses like drunk sailors on shore leave. After the bloodshed of laying off so many employees, Laurence, too, found himself unemployed. The Hitman was Hit. The Terminator was terminated. The Economiser became the Hegonomiser and once again he’d have to tell his wife of his redumbdant status. Etymology: Economiser (a frugal person who limits spending and avoids waste) & He gone (as in terminated from a job, no longer employed) & Miser (thrifty, hoarder,stingy) Created by: Nosila.
Comments on Hegonomiser:
splendiction, 2009-07-08: 23:30:00
excellent word. -“redumbdant” is another good one!Nosila, 2009-07-09: 01:10:00
Cheers,splendiction, and his remaining co-workers reckon hew is a hegonomissed!
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