bullshit reason

Call center jargon. This is the excuse that a call center or your hiring agency gives you for your being canned.

"My bullshit reason for Stream was they said I was browsing porn" Jeremy said, "even though they have a blocking proxy installed and I wasn't at my workstation when it supposedly happened."

by Spirit Bear October 28, 2004

yesterweb

Having been around the web a few times.

This meme is very yesterweb. I saw it on 4chan six weeks ago.

by Spirit Bear August 19, 2007

mentor

A person who works in a call center, usually a lifer who has --for reasons unknown to the common man-- not been fired yet and has been deemed somehow superior to other call center agents. His job is either to rove or answer the mentor line. Roving mentors walk around the call center waiting for desperate agents to flag them down, sometimes involving the embarassing process of waving some sign or doing a chicken dance, in order to get help with resolving a customer issue. Mentor line mentors take calls from other call center agents and attempt to talk them through customer issues while the customer is on hold. You can't call the memtor line unless you have someone on hold, but you can get around that by dialing someone else, dialing the mentor line, then hanging up the first dialed line.

Rob summoned a mentor because he needed to do The Big Nasty.

by Spirit Bear October 28, 2004

in-vertising

In-vertising is a marketing strategy wherein the target audience is pressured into buying a product or service they may or may not need by the intentional insinuation that the audience member must buy the product in order to retain or boost their social standing. In-vertising is often a multi-part scheme which involves manipulation of pop media to increase the popularity of assets heralded herein to be critical to higher social function, such as a song, catch phrase or brand identification.

Some common examples of in-vertising:

Volkswagon's commercials often use obscure musical pieces, which are then pushed to radio and clubs, thereby becoming popular, having the effect that when people hear the tune they find it familiar and question "where have I heard this?" which leads back to Volkswagen's product, thus gaining market exposure for such product.

Apple uses a similar marketing tactic in which an obscure (or established) piece of music is played while the product is moved about on the screen in a pattern that draws the viewer's attention.

Such ads often employ other attention-drawing tactics such as the use of high contrast images (tagged in most of society's brain as the format for important alerts such as street signs and warning labels) and the repetition of recognizable catch phrases (ie "hi I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC").

by Spirit Bear September 21, 2007

miniss

What Boost Mobile customers ask for when they call in to Customer Care to reboost their phones.

Can I get some miniss?

I be out of miniss.

by Spirit Bear July 31, 2007

props

Variables that are set on a MUCK charcter that identify all of its properties. Short for Properties.

I had to set a verification prop on myself to get into the Foo bar.

by Spirit Bear October 28, 2004

mash

To click on something or push a button.

Usually used in the deep south.

I type in my user name and password then I mash on Log In.

I mashed on the doorbell.

by Spirit Bear February 03, 2010