{"id":948,"date":"2010-06-02T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=948"},"modified":"2010-06-02T12:00:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T16:00:03","slug":"attendunce-our-boss-said-i-had-to-attend-this-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"Attendunce: Our boss said I had to attend this meeting."},"content":{"rendered":"

DEFINITION:<\/strong> v.<\/em> To arrive at a meeting completely unprepared and then work diligently and obviously to distract yourself from the proceedings. n.<\/em> A person who attends a meeting but does not believe that they are paid enough to actually pay attention.<\/p>\n

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

Attendunce<\/strong>: \/att enn duhn sssssss<\/em>\/ The attendunce at the meeting was blimpressive Etymology:<\/em> attendance, dunce Created by:<\/em> galwaywegian.<\/p>\n

Innattention<\/strong>: \/In at ten shun<\/em>\/ Oliver worked for Hilton Hotel Chain as it’s IT Chief. He never felt he had to be part of the boring day-to-day matters. Holding them hostage with his superior electronic intelligence, he attended the meetings he was summoned to and ignored everyone and everything. He was guilty of innattention. In fact he had a history of it…when he worked for the sanitation department, he was guilty of binattention. When he worked for the Symphony, it was violinattention; for Lufthansa, it was berlinattention. And when he worked for Tanqueray, he was guilty of ginattention; for the bank, pinattention and for the Las Vegas Tourist Board, it was sinattention. Do you think this is maybe why he’d been fired so often? Etymology:<\/em> Inn (hotel) & Inattention (lack of attention)
\n Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n

Participaint<\/strong>: \/par TISS ih paynt<\/em>\/ She isn’t much of a participant in office meetings – more of a participaint, as in, she ain’t contributing a whole lot. She mostly plays the Pac-Man game that Google put up free as a Google Doodle for Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary. (Right, like you’ve never heard of it.) I guess she thinks we don’t hear the munching sounds coming from her IPhone…. Etymology:<\/em> participant + ain’t Created by:<\/em> karenanne.<\/p>\n

Poohpoohbah<\/strong>: \/po\u00c5\u008dpo\u00c5\u008db\u00c3\u00a4<\/em>\/ Bob attends meetings as directed. That doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean he feels the need to contribute anything useful. He is the self-appointed poohpoohbah of the conference. If anybody makes a suggestion he will begrudging look up from his Blackberry long enough to utter something like \u00e2\u20ac\u009dThat won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t work\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u009dThat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a stupid idea\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and go back to ignoring the proceedings. Etymology:<\/em> Pooh-pooh (dismiss (an idea or suggestion) as being foolish or impractical) + Pooh-bah (a person having much influence or holding many offices at the same time, esp. one perceived as pompously self-important) Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n

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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) Attendunce: \/att enn duhn sssssss\/ The … Continue reading Attendunce: 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\/948"}],"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=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}