Work The Straw

- Being the outcast of a Social Group/Being forced to do something Challenging for nothing in return.

I'm gonna work the straw, and make 'em sweat drip out of every pore.

by Ordinal28 April 2, 2025

warm-up work

Refers to comparatively short intervals of labor that you perform in one of two situations:
(1) Where you are dreading an impending "big job" that involves strenuous and/or disgusting labor, and so you perform a less-disagreeable task beforehand to sort of "break yourself in gently" so that the upcoming drudgery won't be such a traumatic shock to your mind and body.
(2) Where a necessary task is tiring, discouraging, boring, aggravating, etc., and so you would much rather play video games or surf the Web, instead of performing said menial torture. So what you do is to "compromise" --- you do indeed go ahead and push the "power" button on your computer or PlayStation, but then you go off and perform some of the disagreeable task while your entertainment-equipment is booting up; you would still have to wait those few minutes before beginning your fun with the equipment, anyway, and so it doesn't feel quite so "yucky" to hammer away at the exhausting ordeal for those same few minutes; it also makes you feel more productive during that period than just numbly twiddling your thumbs while waiting for your equipment to be ready to use.

As a physically/mentally-infirm bachelor living alone, I find that warm-up work is a real life-saver for many necessary tasks that I might otherwise find excessively discouraging or exhausting, such as hanging out clothes on the line or cleaning up around the yard. I also often Swiss-cheese the job --- working a little of the chore, then taking a break to play on the computer for a few, then going back to tackle the cranky task for a little longer, then checking out a few more humorous/cute Facebook posts, and so on.

by QuacksO October 30, 2018

Put in work

To do illegal things in order to gain power and status on the streets

Yo Don't fuk with him he put in work.

You can tell by how crazy he is he put in work

by Sizzyboi October 1, 2020

game fam work

hey do you must not work there are shitty at job abuseing workers nad being monoply on roblox platform buying games and ruining workers live for little pay and ban people wjho talk about tehre contions and pay

bro game fame is low wage and long game fam work
the ceo banned get off fired

by z9ead April 23, 2023

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by TheGeneralGenitalsPranksterian May 13, 2025

work weight

weight you put on while at a job. eventually the weight is lost after being fired or quitting.

Person 1:how’s the job going?
Person 2: oh ya i actually got fired 3 weeks ago...
Person 1: oh no! the good news is that you’ve already lost tons of work weight
Person 2: Uhhh thanks?

by bros_before_hoos January 2, 2020

splatter work

The exponential worsening of existence based on how God splatters your substance permanently relative to heaven on earth. The gnashing of the soul.

God is going to do some splatter work on the unpardonable sinners to prove a point that 100% evil is so thoroughly encapsulted.

by Hellsprung December 6, 2017