by lydymama June 23, 2011
Get the Voluntoldmug. To be volunteered or pressured into doing something without being able to reject the request. Often occurs in situations where an employee or a military personnel is uncomfortable to reject a request from someone in a higher position--because of the implications.
A portmanteau of volunteer and told.
A portmanteau of volunteer and told.
VP: Our break room has gotten really messy lately. I need a volunteer to help make sure it's clean. Billy, your desk is always very organized. You would make the perfect break room manager.
Billy: Umm ... sure.
Jenny (whispering): Ouch. You just got voluntold.
Billy: Umm ... sure.
Jenny (whispering): Ouch. You just got voluntold.
by HSuke July 22, 2021
Get the voluntoldmug. Robert was voluntold to take out the trash.
by The Phalanx February 12, 2023
Get the Voluntoldmug. When a situation that calls for a volunteer arises and somebody forcibly volunteers somebody else without their permission and/or knowledge. You are volunteered, but it is not you volunteering yourself.
I was planning on getting laid tonight, but instead got voluntold by my brother to cook dinner for my family. Of course, I was not told this until I was just about to leave.
by kukluxFlan September 26, 2014
Get the Voluntoldmug. by I _will_try_next_time April 11, 2017
Get the voluntoldmug. being involuntarily volunteered to perform a job or task as a result of being absent from a business meeting
I was unable to attend the staff meeting this morning and, as a consequence, I was "voluntold" to take on the responsibility for completing several critical assignments
by csachs22 January 19, 2011
Get the voluntoldmug. When a task is at hand and someone tells you to do it with the expectation that you will do it as if you volunteered to.
by rosegoldsholes December 3, 2022
Get the Voluntoldmug.