{"id":1321,"date":"2011-10-19T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2011-10-19T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T16:00:11","slug":"antiestablishmentcontraranism-our-boss-said-i-had-to-attend-this-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1321","title":{"rendered":"Antiestablishmentcontraranism: Our boss said I had to attend this meeting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To arrive at a meeting completely unprepared and then work diligently and obviously to distract yourself from the proceedings.  <em>n.<\/em> A person who attends a meeting but does not believe that they are paid enough to actually pay attention.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/board.gif\" alt=\"Our boss said I had to attend this meeting.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Antiestablishmentcontraranism<\/strong>:  \/<em>ant\u00c4\u00abistablishm\u00c9\u2122ntk\u00c9\u2122ntrer\u00c4\u201c\u00c9\u2122niz\u00c9\u2122m<\/em>\/ Justin expresses his antiestablishmentcontraranism by showing up for the annual company meeting in a clown outfit. Far from disrupting the gathering, the CEO ad libbed his speech to talk about the clowns that needed to be weeded out of the company. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  anti (against) + establishment (a business organization, public institution) + contrarianism (a person who opposes or rejects popular opinion) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Procrasturbate<\/strong>:  \/<em>pro-crass-stir-bate<\/em>\/ Rick whipped out his phone and commenced forth to procrasturbate during the meeting, much to the chagrin of corporate.  Rick, of course, worked in IT. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  procrastinate and mast**bate. <em>Created by:<\/em> youmustvotenato.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trystolackadaisicalist<\/strong>:  \/<em>TRIHST-o-LAK-a-DAYZ-a-kull-ihst.<\/em>\/ Jeremiah was prone to being a trystolackadaisicalist; he attended meetings but clearly didn&#8217;t care one whit about what went on there. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  From tryst (an agreement to meet at a certain time and place) and lackadaisical (lazy or uncaring). <em>Created by:<\/em> VigilanteLexicant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quoredom<\/strong>:  \/<em>kwor dom<\/em>\/ When Rocky showed up at a meeting, he displayed a great degree of quoredom.   Being the IT guy, he felt such human habits as conducting meetings were not worthy of his precious time. Since teamwork was a big portion of his bonus money, he would have been wiser and wealthier to at least pretend to participate in the proceedings.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Quorum (a gathering of the minimal number of members of an organization to conduct business) &amp; Boredom (the feeling of being bored by something tedious) <\/p>\n<p> <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=board\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=board<\/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 arrive at a meeting completely unprepared and then work diligently and obviously to distract yourself from the proceedings. n. A person who attends a meeting but does not believe that they are paid enough to actually pay attention. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Antiestablishmentcontraranism: \/ant\u00c4\u00abistablishm\u00c9\u2122ntk\u00c9\u2122ntrer\u00c4\u201c\u00c9\u2122niz\u00c9\u2122m\/ Justin expresses his antiestablishmentcontraranism &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1321\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Antiestablishmentcontraranism: Our boss said I had to attend this meeting.<\/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\/1321"}],"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=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}