DirtyWaterbury's definitions

Septemberfest

Sam Adams Octoberfest enjoyed as soon as it comes out for the season. It is referred to as Septemberfest when it is not yet October.

Late August or Early Sept each year Tom immediately goes to beer aisle on every grocery store visit, and sees if he can be the first to score some Septemberfest to drink on NFL Sunday.

by DirtyWaterbury September 10, 2025

itoldyouso

Person you has that I-told-you-so attitude in the way they point out a mistake.

Ok team we need to fix the mistake for that itoldyouso. He's right, but I simply cant stand the way that arrogant customer points out the flaws with our product.

by DirtyWaterbury February 7, 2020

email fork

When your coworker does not respond to the latest reply of an email thread, the discussion becomes forked between his reply and the latest. The fork is more severe when an email volley is accumulating participants, and you get left out. in which case, you'll hope someone will loop you in. the fork could be unintentional if the forker is just a slow-ass chicken pecker. but if he has a rep of being a habitual threadjacker, it is probably not

To avoid an email fork of the thread with a client, Becky sent Chad a DM that she was drafting a response to the client's latest questions.

by DirtyWaterbury March 12, 2019

con ref

Dishonesty when giving a job reference with the hope of convincing them to take your bad employee off your hands.

When they called, gave them a con ref so they would take Bob. It would be cheaper and less awkward than firing him.

by DirtyWaterbury March 8, 2019

hit by the bus

Phrase used when evaluating how much risk exists in a (software) project, more specifically, if project success is too dependent upon any one principal team member. Closely related to "bus factor".

What if Eugene is hit by the bus, who will approve Git pull requests?

by DirtyWaterbury March 8, 2019

dis ref

Job reference that is secretly a dis. Perhaps from a co-worker that privately doesn't respect your professional skills. or your current boss provides dis information because they don't want you to leave the company.

Maybe I didn't get that new job because Richard gave them a dis ref.

by DirtyWaterbury March 7, 2019

no pisser

A task so urgent that not even a bathroom break is possible until it is complete.

He knew that correcting the mistake in the (soon to be delivered) presentation slides would be a no pisser.

by DirtyWaterbury February 11, 2019