DEFINITION: v. To greet a person on the phone in rude or obnoxious manner, and then do your best to ignore, or talk over, whatever they say as the conversation continues. n. A person with atrocious phone manners.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Opberator: /äpbirÄtÉ™r/ Hilda loves her job as an opberator. It gives her a great sense of power that she can disconnect dozens of callers with a simple flip of a switch. She can deride a caller to the point where they will often apologize for bothering her. And that thing about calls being recorded for quality-control purposes? The tapes are played at monthly staff meetings as entertainment. Etymology: operator (a person who works at a telephone switchboard) + berate (scold or criticize someone angrily) Created by: artr.
Recepshunist: /ree sepp shun issst/ the recepshunist was off sick with a partial cold…..two cold shoulders Etymology: receptionist shun Created by: galwaywegian.
Telephant: /tel-uh-fuhnt/ “Jane is such a telephant! I swear, once she gets on her cell her behaviour becomes telephaniccal, barking orders and screaming obscenities at some poor slob who doesn’t even know who she is. Maybe she needs therapy?” Etymology: telephone + elephant + tyrant Created by: catgrin.
Uncivilservant: /un siv ill ser vant/ Rudi was aptly named. She was employed by the Dept. of Political Correctness and Fair Treatment. Unfortunately she had been a transferee from the Taxation Dept. so in fact, she was an uncivilservant. She snarled into telephones, was rude with co-workers and clients and apparently hated her job. The irony was that she had more Employee of the Month and Outstanding Customer Service Awards than anyone else in her department. Can you imagine what the rest of them were like??? Etymology: Uncivil (lacking civility or good manners) & Civil Servant (a public official who is a member of the civil service)
Created by: Nosila.
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