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Nuclear Proaction

1) An extreme “over pre-action” to an event occurring in the future.
2) Extraordinarily proactive measures taken in spite of detailed processes already in place to address the situation in question.

Communications are typically verbose, meticulously detailed, and far exceed the authority of the originator. Commonly encountered via email, examples often contain combinations of “wall o’ words”, check-lists, outlines, attachments, or screen shots and are often sent to multiple recipients using separate email chains in a shotgun effect. Whether intended or not, nuclear proactions are demeaning to their recipients because they are generally unnecessary and infer ineptitude on the part of the recipient.
Proactor discovers a problem impacting a tiny percentage of the company’s customer base. Following procedures, he notifies his direct supervisor in a 500-word paragraph explaining the problem. Without delay, Proactor proceeds to forward the communication (crafted for his supervisor) to co-workers including a comprehensive check list they must follow in order to identify examples of the issue for collection.

A separate communication goes to all Field, Network, and Database engineering teams. This note has a subject “FYI” with text in the body of “Please Assist” and 14 screen shots detailing the sole example collected (the 15th screen shot was left off to prevent the message from being too large for the company’s servers to process). Attached to this Engineering communication are the two prior emails Proactor sent. This final concoction gets forwarded to a manager with the company VP blind carbon copied.

Satisfied with his Nuclear Proaction, Proactor puts up his out of office message and leaves for the day.
by Im_Mature March 23, 2011
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probation

Person 1: “Yo bro wanna hop in on this rotation?”
Person 2: “I wish I could but i’m on probation :(“
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lighter probation

noun -
1. a sentence imposed by a smoker court whereby the lighter thief is monitored for a period of time following the offense.
2. when bumming a smoke, common among those sentenced, the individual is supervised until they have returned the borrowed lighter.
3. When bumming a light, after 30 seconds any smoker present may yank the lighter away from the offender and return it to the lender.
4. Probation sentence can be commuted if the offender buys the individual wronged a new lighter.
Last week Jennifer stole my lighter for the third time this year; she's on lighter probation for the next two months.
by R.M. Rem February 21, 2011
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probation relationship

When someone in a relationship is very very angry at the other person because they've done something horrible, but is still in love with them so they don't really want to break up. they go on a probation relationship where theyre still together, but not talking. kind of like being on a break.
Yeah, by boyfriend lied to me so I we're now in a probation relationship.
by Amber knows who this is. November 17, 2010
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Progaytion

This word is used when a male friend does something that is very gay. Then he is put on "probation," or rather "progaytion"
"Dude, did you know that Steve accidently fell asleep drunk in Tom's bed with Tom? He is totally on progaytion."
by joseph16394 September 25, 2009
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boost on probation

when somebody is seemingly boost, or cool, but they still have to prove their worth.
Dude, that guy seems alright, but he's still kinda shifty. He's like boost on probation"
by balbir October 5, 2007
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double secret probation

ToGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!
ToGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!
by Lil' Jon January 27, 2005
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