Poor effort in the office 

To preform blatant laziness and complete dereliction of duty at hand

Bill Rick and Kevin demonstrated a poor effort in the office by dropping the ball

Poor effort in the office by Just pawns July 9, 2021

Noble effort 

Anything heroic that Joe Leal is incapable of doing.

Johnny: Man, Joe shit his pants before he even took the field

Will: Yeah what a real noble effort.

Jesse: Nah, whatever Joe does is anything but a noble effort

Joe’s parents: Told you!

Noble effort by TheManicHispanicMexicutioner September 9, 2021

best effort 

when you try to do everything even though it is almost impossible;
pushing someone to do some thing when you know it is hard for them

best effort when you do your deliverables
Tan said, insert best effort in everything.

best effort by Tan susanne June 6, 2022

Valorant Effort 

When you're playing a game and someone makes an effort but the effort was actually quite mediocre or straight up bad so instead of being a valiant effort it must be concluded it was a Valorant Effort

Opposite of a "valiant effort"

"Go B go B, you got this bro"
*horrible peek and loses instantly*
"eh, it was a Valorant Effort.."

Valorant Effort by Kaiser Pepe :^) November 26, 2023

high-effort shitpost 

A term commonly used by redditors, using two contrasting and confusing words to describe shitpost that is not low-quality.

Nice high-effort shitpost gone there.

high-effort shitpost by Jovito August 18, 2024

A Jiggle Effort 

Teaming Up To Achieve Great Accomplishments.

A Jiggle Effort enabled people to enact our Civil Rights Act of 1964.

A Jiggle Effort by Cookie Leslie November 1, 2011

return on effort employed 

The KPi that defined whether or not a task or energy applied to it is really worth the bother.

Rebecca: “oh lord! There’s a Lion heading towards us”
Leon: “oh cripes, we should LITERALLY RUN AS FAST AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE , in order to make sure we are in front of all these other Safari tourists”
Rebecca: “er, no. It’s hot. I don’t need to be the fastest. I just need to be faster than 1 or 2 of them.
And as most of them ate lunch and I only had a date; I fancy my chances”
Leon: “oh gosh; you’re right as usual Honey - there was me always wanting to be the best at everything I do (inc. running from Lions) but actually it’s so hot, the “return on effort employed” or ROEE just isn’t there”
Rebecca: “thank the lord; finally you get it (see also 20:80).
Leon: “yes - I coined that one too”

return on effort employed by L30NRB August 8, 2020