“I’m working graveyard on weekends now.” “Oh, that’s rough. I don’t know how you do it.” “I don’t need your shift-pity.”
by PdmHillsboro April 17, 2020
Get the Shift-pitymug. Someone who actively acts to steal the sympathy that is meant for someone else, generally by witnessing someone behave sympathetically to another and intersecting their own ( often exaggerated ) story of hardship so the sympathizer and the original beneficiary have to give the poacher all the attention and condolence. A behavior closely related to the chronic"one-upper" personality
I was telling the boss about my kid having a cold and that pity-poacher bill started lying about being born with dypheria and gout, so much for getting to clock out early, bill already got to.
by Joshamaphone March 27, 2021
Get the Pity-poachermug. To deflect, knowingly and unknowingly, from the problems one might have with a commercial product/a corporation's unethical behavior by turning it into an overly emotional issue centered around how a high-level executive directly responsible for said problems must have felt.
Originally used on Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch 2 forums to describe the perspective that the game's director, who misled an entire community by lying about a game feature that was heavily advertised when they knew prior to the game's release it was cancelled, must have felt too ashamed to act otherwise.
Originally used on Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch 2 forums to describe the perspective that the game's director, who misled an entire community by lying about a game feature that was heavily advertised when they knew prior to the game's release it was cancelled, must have felt too ashamed to act otherwise.
A: I feel so bad for the game director, they must have felt too bad to tell us the truth...
B: That's pity shilling- feeling too bad to do the right thing means nothing when not doing it means you are misleading people.
B: That's pity shilling- feeling too bad to do the right thing means nothing when not doing it means you are misleading people.
by monogrolo May 20, 2023
Get the Pity Shillingmug. The act of, "dumping" your saddening feelings to others, causing you to feel like it was worthless to say in the first place and move on to another topic a second later.
{Person 1} "Sometimes I wonder why I can't help people. People won't come to me for help when they feel terrible, everytime I try to be positive, I end up going into the negative instead-"
{Person 2} "Wow, he's going through a hard pity dump..."
{Person 3} "Don't worry. He'll probably be better after."
{Person 2} "Wow, he's going through a hard pity dump..."
{Person 3} "Don't worry. He'll probably be better after."
by CreativeLogic October 9, 2015
Get the Pity Dumpmug. when a male becomes diseased or bodily injured and attempts to use these disabilities to get personnal gain and/or pleasure from the opposit sex.
by michael and nate November 7, 2007
Get the pity factormug. When you like someone's instagram photo for the sole reason of the guilty feeling you have because the photo has like zero likes.
by Mileydelrey March 29, 2015
Get the Pity-Likemug. by skuffed_up March 1, 2023
Get the pity farmingmug.