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rewarded incompetence

When there is a task or job function that you consistently screw up so the organization assigns the task to someone else, this rewarding the incompetence with lower responsibility.
Jim was responsible for printing and applying the labels to the shipping boxes, but kept putting the wrong labels on, so it is now his supervisors responsibility. Thus Jim has received rewarded incompetence with lower responsibility.
by anonymous May 19, 2024
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Societally Rewarding

You aren't socially rewarding anybody. I think that is not only the single most offensive way of structuring a society but serves no purpose other than to condition people to accept servitude. You know that right? That isn't a thing.
Hym "That sounds like some ignorant conservative shit. You aren't 'Societally Rewarding' people when they exchange their labor or advance or they 'succeed in general'. That's not a social reward. People try to treat it that way. As though success is a societal reward. They do the same thing with sex. But their behavior in no way needs to be concordant with any consistent behavioral ethic. They can find vague, amorphous predictors. And sure, I'm sure the data on the predictors is accurate. But that's not the point. Who has the sucess is irrelevant. That it's FRAMED as a 'Societal reward' is the issue and what's more interesting is what I think is WHY it's framed that way. The success isn't enough. They want to DESERVE it. So... It's societally framed as a reward. So that people are motivated to strive for success. So that what they succeed, they get that release of dopamine and continue to strive. It's a 'Skinner Box.' (In abstraction obviously). A conceptual machine much like my Chaff grenade or my money generator. A lot of things are treated like Societal reward. Association. Sex. Success. A portable skinner box sold to you buy society. You carry it with you everywhere you go and then blame social media while you mash the button. But I've said this all before."
by Hym Iam August 23, 2023
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intermittent variable rewards

On social media platforms like YouTube, this term commonly abbreviated as IVRs refer to engagement metrics, such as likes, comments and subscriptions. For creators, this type of engagement can lead to more dopamine in the brain, resulting in a rush of pleasure and validation for their work.
The way his subscriber count kept climbing was all thanks to those intermittent variable rewards; every notification felt like a little win!
by Emotional Cruiser September 22, 2025
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Wingman's reward

When you get to hook up with the friend of the girl that your mate is going for, because you and the girl friend are stuck with each other and there's not much else to do.

It's not a great reward but better than going home empty handed.

Note that it's not a wingmans' reward if you're actually into the girl. That's tag teaming and not wingmanning.
I wingmanned Kyle last night and collected a half decent wingman's reward.
by drinkbord January 11, 2023
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Reward

Due compensation for my property in accordance with my 5th amendment right.
Hym "I am not going to let you control my behavior. No reward would be worth allowing it. If I am not given due compensation for my property in accordance with my 5th amendment rights I will violate the rights of a person of my choosing as recompense. Fuck your kids. Your kids are still shit. You are actively trying to sacrifice someone else's kids so you can feel like you have control over the people who would harm them and in the mean time your kids are still getting fucked and mangled. So, what did I hear about a shooting where the guy wanted child executions for all of the deaths in Palestine? So, do yourself a favor. Give me my money. Save yourself the embarrassment of the largest media scandal in the history of media... And then do everyone else a favor... Go home... Put a bullet in you kids... And then feed yourself a bullet... Everybody wins."
by Hym Iam December 9, 2024
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standard reward

The typically-accepted-as-equivalent "pleasure-reimbursement" that a guy and gal exchange in a particular everyday romantic "transaction".
Two examples of standard rewards:
(1) If a guy allows a visiting gal to use his shower, she lets him accompany her into the shower and dreamily canoodle with her under the warm waterfall.
(2) If a misty-eyed guy wants to give a buxom gal a naked chest-to-chest hug, he'll soothingly massage her back all during said extended deeply-squeezy snuggle-session. (A variation on this "contract" would be that if she lets him savoringly play with her boobs and fondle her butt, he'll massage whatever other body-parts that she requests him to soothe --- i.e., her feet, shoulder-blades, neck, etc. --- for a similar length of time as he pleasures his thirsting hands with her "choicest morsels".)
by QuacksO July 4, 2018
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