{"id":1426,"date":"2012-03-12T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2012-03-12T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T16:00:05","slug":"cusdumber-hey-do-you-work-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1426","title":{"rendered":"Cusdumber: Hey, do you work here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To ask someone who is clearly in a store uniform, perhaps on a ladder creating a display or running a cash register &#8220;Do you work here?&#8221; <em>n.<\/em> A person who doesn&#8217;t know how to ask for assistance in a retail store without asking a stupid question.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/hook.gif\" alt=\"Hey, do you work here?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cusdumber<\/strong>:  \/<em>kuhs-duh-mer<\/em>\/ If there is anything that a store clerk hates, it has to be the cusdumber who can&#8217;t seem to do anything without asking a stupid question or making an ignorant statement. &#8220;Do you work here?&#8221; &#8220;This item is scratched (they just scratched it). Can I get a discount?&#8221; The only hope is if they get just a little dumber, they might forget to breath or how to get to to the store.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  customer (a person who purchases goods or services from another) + dumb (lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Klutztomer<\/strong>:  \/<em>klutz tum err<\/em>\/ The klutztomer is always riot <em>Etymology:<\/em>  customer klutz <em>Created by:<\/em> galwaywegian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Staffinvection<\/strong>:  \/<em>staff in vek shun<\/em>\/ When George the patient asked the man in the hospital with the white scrubs; the stethoscope, mask and chart whether he worked there as he took George&#8217;s vitals, he got himself a case of staffinvection. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Staff (employee) &amp; Invection (. An expression which inveighs or rails against a person) &amp; Wordplay on Staph Infection (A spherical gram-positive parasitic bacterium of the genus Staphylococcus, usually occurring in grapelike clusters and causing boils, septicemia, and other infections).<\/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=hook\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=hook<\/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 ask someone who is clearly in a store uniform, perhaps on a ladder creating a display or running a cash register &#8220;Do you work here?&#8221; n. A person who doesn&#8217;t know how to ask for assistance in a retail store without asking a stupid question. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1426\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cusdumber: Hey, do you work here?<\/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\/1426"}],"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=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}