TissPee's definitions

articulature

(n.) Stylized, intelligent or appropriately styled characteristics of an idea, proposal, speech or expression. Denotes a concept expressed in a professional, plausible manner.

I'm sorry Jack. You're proposal for casual attire year-round doesn't have enough articulature to put before the board. Come back when you can make a better case for it.

by TissPee September 8, 2010

Dump Face

The straining expression you make the moment you take a dump. Like an “O” face, but for pooping instead of orgasming.

My roommate walked into the bathroom and saw my dump face. I feel so violated.

by TissPee January 28, 2021

echo request

When an incompetent employee makes continuous, connected, inefficient email requests of a top employee, each one followed by another like a never-ending Matryoshka doll. The expert answers the question or provides the information and the asker makes an follow-up request that could easily have been made as part of the initial question, not unlike a three-year-old in a “Why?” fatal embrace.

It is the electronic version of someone who won’t leave your office, and an example of modern corporate inefficiency. It is also the reason why top people need firewalls to prevent them from bombardments of stupidity. In the past, it was the live executive assistant or receptionist. Now, since most experts are not executives and don’t have administrative assistants screening their email, bumbling, disorganized employees can waste large gobs of (presumably more expensive) time with incomplete request after incomplete request.

Email from incompetent: Hey, can you get me the sales numbers from the third quarter?

Email response from expert: Sure, here they are (attached).

(five minutes later)
Email from incompetent: Hey, can you also send me projections for fourth quarter?

(expert, yelling at monitor): Why didn't you ask for that before? I have a meeting in five minutes and have to deal with an echo request from Dave in Logisitics?! Come on!

by TissPee January 22, 2010

terminate velocity

n. applies to new or recent hires that don't seem to understand the job for which they were hired.

That new girl in Logistics hit terminate velocity last Thursday when she sorted one column of a 50,000-cell spreadsheet and saved it to the shared drive.

by TissPee September 8, 2010

male intuition

Assembling a gadget without reading instructions, throwing the extra parts out with box, then calling manufacturer and telling them they weren't included when gadget doesn't work.

Sorry I was late. I installed my GPS via male intuition and got to know your development really well over the past 30 minutes.

by TissPee April 21, 2008

erassment

Harassment over email, either by extending threads well past their point of completion, or by making urgent requests better expressed in person or on the phone.

The erassment never ends. Joe just requested mid-week figures even though he's at a conference until Monday.

by TissPee July 1, 2008

telejerk

Someone who works from home, and communicates exclusively by email. Often after-the-fact and the voice of dissent, they waste time with long email threads instead of meeting face-to-face, or at least on the phone.

Bob: Who's this butthead Ralph who keeps sending emails poo-pooing our ideas?

Jack: Oh, he's some telejerk Terry hired last year.

by TissPee July 1, 2008