Name after TEMS Scott Klinefelter, it’s when you’re such a stud, you completely destroy all your X chromosomes making you mentally unhinged.
by Hoagies before Poagies September 01, 2022
by doomlikeskidding April 09, 2024
When an IT worker, usually in a leadership role, deliberately messes up something that works well to make their job seem irreplaceable (i.e., the hero). Symptoms include front line staff and vendors running around frantically in a "sky is falling" scenario only to discover after great detective work and duress one pulled wire or misconfigured group policy, which was not that way yesterday.
"Check the cable?"
"The desk hasn't moved from this spot in ten years."
"Check it anyway."
"Well I'll be .... printer's working fine now! Fourth time this week. Peter was just here yesterday.... you thinking what i'm thinking?
"Munchausen Syndrome by Technology."
"bingo."
"The desk hasn't moved from this spot in ten years."
"Check it anyway."
"Well I'll be .... printer's working fine now! Fourth time this week. Peter was just here yesterday.... you thinking what i'm thinking?
"Munchausen Syndrome by Technology."
"bingo."
by jj_702 October 17, 2019
by Boogereater69 February 04, 2022
N.: A made-up syndrome describing one who creates new non-standard usages on the internet, in the hopes that it will a: be fresh, cool, funny, or all of the above; or b: find its way into common usage.
A: See this definition.
B: "What idiot would coin a patently bogus medical term? He obviously suffers from Excessive Internet Coinage Syndrome (EICS)."
B: "What idiot would coin a patently bogus medical term? He obviously suffers from Excessive Internet Coinage Syndrome (EICS)."
by deficiency_of_damn June 19, 2011
sholder spasm, Sholder syndrome
by Felecia soko January 17, 2013
When someone has very strong convictions about bad things that are happening so far away that they can't possibly do anything about it, yet do nothing about bad things that are close enough to do something about.
This guy at the coffee shop just talked to me for 20 minutes, unsolicited, about how he could fix the problems at North America's southern border if only he was on the ground there. I think he has helpless hero syndrome
by GriffMasterFresh April 08, 2021