{"id":335,"date":"2008-04-29T09:02:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T14:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=335"},"modified":"2008-05-01T09:04:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T14:04:21","slug":"gotchawatcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"Gotchawatcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> A type of frustration created by a manager who never notices when you work late, but always nags you for leaving early whenever you leave on time. <em>v.<\/em> To carefully monitor your subordinates to ensure that they never leave work a minute early. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/early.gif\" alt=\"Don't tell me your trying to sneak out early?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gotchawatcher<\/strong>:  \/<em>Got-char-wat-chur<\/em>\/ Bob knew that he wouldn&#8217;t be able to leave work early, as the gotchawatcher had his eye on him. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Got you + watcher = Gotchawatcher <em>Created by:<\/em> TJayzz.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Gotchawatcher:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Jabberwocky\">Jabberwocky<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-04-23: 09:03:00<\/em> <br \/>clever<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-04-23: 17:48:00<\/em> <br \/>like it!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Mustang\">Mustang<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-04-23: 21:56:00<\/em> <br \/>I used to work for that guy too.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Clockstalk<\/strong>:  \/<em>klok-stawk<\/em>\/ Jim, our obnoxious, irritating, micro manager, clockstalks every employee ensuring that they give 110% of their working time to the company.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  clock + stalk <em>Created by:<\/em> Stevenson0.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Clockstalk:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-04-23: 17:47:00<\/em> <br \/>Great word with many applications.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Slackervise<\/strong>:  \/<em>slak&#8217;-\u00c9\u2122r-v\u00c4\u00abz&#8217;<\/em>\/ Fred&#8217;s secretary Ethel had arrived seventy-seven seconds past her forty-minute  allotted lunch period, so Fred made sure to slackervise even more diligently than usual to insure she made up the time at actual work before leaving for the evening; at her claimed typing speed of 110 wpm, that should work out to an extra 141.16667 words for the day. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  &#8216;slacker,&#8217; less taut; &#8216;vise,&#8217; device for holding objects firmly in place.   <em>Created by:<\/em> stache.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Slackervise:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-04-23: 17:50:00<\/em> <br \/>Nice word!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Clockants<\/strong>:  \/<em>klok-ants<\/em>\/ Angie had been working late for the past few weeks without any complaint or second thought.  That is, until she had to leave on time to get home to fix dinner for her fiance&#8217;s parents. She was clockant as she tip-toed past her boss&#8217;s office. Breathing a sigh of relief when she cleared the doorway, she looked up and he was right in front of her. &#8220;Leaving, are you?&#8221; he said in a snooty voice.  She pretended not to hear him and slipped out the door. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  clock, a device for noting the time + ant <em>Created by:<\/em> arrrteest.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=early\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=early<\/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<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Definition Comments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Verbotomy\">Verbotomy<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <em>2008-04-23: 00:01:00<\/em><br \/>\nToday&#8217;s definition was suggested by <a href=\"\/verbotomist.php?user=remistram\"><strong>remistram<\/strong><\/a>. Thank you remistram. ~ James<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=stache\">stache<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <em>2008-04-23: 22:10:00<\/em><\/p>\n<p>slackervisor looks a little like hank hill.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=daniellegeorge\">daniellegeorge<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <em>2008-04-24: 13:17:00<\/em><br \/>\nclockblock is genius <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: n. A type of frustration created by a manager who never notices when you work late, but always nags you for leaving early whenever you leave on time. v. To carefully monitor your subordinates to ensure that they never leave work a minute early. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Gotchawatcher: \/Got-char-wat-chur\/ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=335\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gotchawatcher<\/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":[90,43,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335"}],"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=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}