{"id":3,"date":"2007-02-27T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2007-03-31T17:01:09","modified_gmt":"2007-03-31T21:01:09","slug":"im-surprised-no-else-picked-up-the-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=3","title":{"rendered":"I’m surprised no else picked up the ball"},"content":{"rendered":"

DEFINITION:<\/strong> The ability to listen intently and sympathize with your colleagues when they request assistance, and then to simply, and completely, forget about it.<\/font><\/p>\n

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VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

Scampathy<\/strong>: \/Skam-path-ee<\/em>\/ Instead of helping Jill go up the hill to fetch a pail of water, Jack stayed at home out of sheer laziness. He was a master of the art of scampathy. Etymology:<\/em> Scam + scamp + empathy. Scam: a con; something designed to fool you. Scamp: a rascal. Empathy: to put yourself in another person’s shoes, to see their point of view. Created by:<\/em> Discoveria.<\/font><\/p>\n

Flipservice<\/strong>: \/flip-sur-vus<\/em>\/ His flipservice was so convincing, he never did any actual work Etymology:<\/em> flip (about face) + lip service (hypocracy) Created by:<\/em> Jabberwocky.<\/font><\/p>\n

Eyewall<\/strong>: \/eye-wall<\/em>\/ His eye contact was perfect and sincere and his responses empathetic and kind, but his memory was going into shut down mode. He was a master at the ability to eyewall his colleagues. Etymology:<\/em> eye + eye ball + fire wall Created by:<\/em> Stevenson0.<\/font><\/p>\n

Limpathy<\/strong>: \/-\u00cb\u02c6l\u00c9\u00aam.p\u00c9\u2122\u00cb\u0152\u00ce\u00b8i-<\/em>\/ Customer service representatives are often judged on their limpathy skills as opposed to their ability to actually fix problems. Etymology:<\/em> From limp + empathy Created by:<\/em> ErWenn.<\/font><\/p>\n

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DEFINITION: The ability to listen intently and sympathize with your colleagues when they request assistance, and then to simply, and completely, forget about it. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Scampathy: \/Skam-path-ee\/ Instead of helping Jill go up the hill to fetch a pail of water, Jack stayed at home out of sheer … Continue reading I’m surprised no else 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":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3"}],"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=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}