e - mail abuse

Officially, the misuse of employer provided e - mail.

Practically, something that you get accused of when your work want you to leave / block a promotion / sack people without paying redundancy costs etc.

Usually ends with being hit with the disciplinary hammer, generally with a view to sacking your ass.

Employee is called to a meeting and presented with a pile of e - mails.

Manager:

We've audited your inbox and these e - mails are completely unacceptable and represent e - mail abuse and a breach of the Code of Conduct.

What did you mean when you wrote 'I'd smack that back door' when writing about my PA?

HR Manager:

Think carefully about your answer. Sexual Harrasment and non work usage of electronic media is a dismissable offence.

Employee:

I was referring to her great ass and saying I'd like to show it love. I thought it was flattering.

Manager:

That's not an appropriate way to behave in a disciplinary hearing.

HR Manager:

I refer you to your e - mail asking Joe if he had seen the murmur pants on display in Finance. What are murmur pants?

Employee:

You should know. You told me.

HR Manager:

This isn't about me.

Employee:

It's a tight pair of female pants that mean you can see the lips moving but you can't hear a sound.

Is there any point in continuing this discussion?

HR Manager & Manager

No

by HR_Advisory March 22, 2011

alcohol abuse

spilling alcohol, as in abusing it by wasting it.

You just spilled my beer all over the floor, that's alcohol abuse.

by caitlin February 25, 2005

Emotional abuse

A regular pattern of verbal offense, threatening, bullying, and constant criticism, as well as more subtle tactics like intimidation, shaming and manipulation

My mother endures emotional abuse in her marriage constantly!

by Kathryn Santini April 4, 2016

sexual abuse

While it's generally called "unwanted sexual contact," child sexual abuse is an adult using a child to meet his or her sexual needs.Some children are manipulated or coerced into thinking that the sex was wanted. It's still sexual abuse, because kids aren't mentally able to give consent.

Some survivors will blame themselves and say, "But I went along with it. I didn't fight back. I can't accept that I was being sexually abused." No, honey. It's still sexual abuse.

"I was a childhood survivor of sexual abuse. I didn't know much about sex and I didn't understand what was going on."

by TheRunaways March 21, 2010

Ambient Abuse

A form of intimidation or psychological abuse, sometimes called Gaslighting. where false information is presented to the victim, making them doubt their own memory, perception and quite often, their sanity. The classic example of ambient abuse is to very subtly toy with someone's environment in a way that you know they're sure to notice, but then deny knowing anything about it, and to explain that they "must be imagining things" when they challenge these changes. Doing this on a long term and/or methodical basis (as opposed to the occasional practical joke) with the intent to cause distress and harm would be considered ambient abuse.

A more psychological definition of ambient abuse is "an increasing frequency of systematically withholding factual information from, and/or providing false information to, the victim - having the gradual effect of making them anxious, confused, and less able to trust their own memory and perception.

Your spouse begins telling you things that never really happened. For instance, he says that last week he told you he was going to go to the bar with his buddies this Monday night, but you never remember him telling you that.

Or maybe your boss gets angry because you didn't prepare the report he asked you to. When you remind him that he usually prepares that particular report, he snaps that he told you to take care of it a few days ago because he was too busy. However, you know he never asked you to do so.

Both of these could be considered ambient abuse.

by Your Reality Check June 1, 2009

The Absurd

The philosophical conflict between a man’s tendency to seek hot bitches in life and the inability to find any. This term was first coined by Albert Camus through his works regarding Absurdism, a philosophy he popularized largely throughout the 1940’s.

Man 1: “Hey man, where did all the hot bitches go?”

Man 2: “I don’t know man, It seems as though they’ve been wiped off the face of the earth.”

Man 1: “Fuck, It looks like we’ve just nosedived straight into The absurd.”

Man 2: “Oof.”

by Hot Bitch On Mars July 3, 2018

Absurdistan

Your current locale/country when something completely ridiculous happens.

Here in Asburdistan, the State-boys pull over those who "speed" while ignoring those who hog the passing-lane, exhibiting their longest fingers.

by Sean Brian Kirby June 4, 2003