{"id":1133,"date":"2011-02-04T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2011-02-04T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T17:00:09","slug":"compassionot-im-surprised-that-no-one-else-has-picked-up-the-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1133","title":{"rendered":"Compassionot: I&#8217;m surprised that no one else has picked up the ball."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To listen intently and sympathize with your colleagues when they request assistance, and then to simply, and completely, forget about it. <em>n.<\/em> The ability to sympathize with, yet ignore, requests for help.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/ask.gif\" alt=\"I'm surprised that no one else has picked up the ball.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Compassionot<\/strong>:  \/<em>k\u00c9\u2122mpash\u00c9\u2122n\u00c3\u00a4t<\/em>\/ As much as Judy saw heads nodding as she explained her dilemma, when it came down to getting help, her coworkers are decidedly compassionot. What she later discovered was that upper management had replaced a number of her coworkers with life-sized bobbleheads. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  compassionate (feeling or showing sympathy and concern for others) + not (used to express the negative of other words) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Compassionot:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=galwaywegian\">galwaywegian<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2011-02-02: 09:53:00<\/em> <br \/>good one<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Empathetic<\/strong>:  \/<em>em-pa-theh-tik<\/em>\/ Our IT team is very empathetic.  They listen attentively to our problems and then promptly forget about them. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  empathy + pathetic <em>Created by:<\/em> Jabberwocky.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conmanfidant<\/strong>:  \/<em>konn mahnn fid awnt<\/em>\/ He was a complete comnamfidant. They all ran to him with their deepest secret fears, mistaking his wide eyed look as one of surprise when in fact he had thyroid issues and ulterior motives. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  confidant, con man <em>Created by:<\/em> galwaywegian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Helpologize<\/strong>:  \/<em>help-o-lo-gize<\/em>\/ Saba helpologize when i asked her to help me out in my assignment as she got to do something. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  help + apologize <em>Created by:<\/em> Ahmad.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=ask\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=ask<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: v. To listen intently and sympathize with your colleagues when they request assistance, and then to simply, and completely, forget about it. n. The ability to sympathize with, yet ignore, requests for help. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Compassionot: \/k\u00c9\u2122mpash\u00c9\u2122n\u00c3\u00a4t\/ As much as Judy saw heads nodding as she explained her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1133\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Compassionot: I&#8217;m surprised that no one else has picked up the ball.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}