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Workplace Deviance
Workplace deviance is a deliberate or intentional desire to cause harm to an organisation. This can be the organisation which employs an individual or an organisation of which they are a member. It is, perhaps, best described as “voluntary behaviour which contravenes the established norms of the organisation and, in doing so, compromises its viability.”
Workplace deviance can vary greatly, from minor non-violent misbehaviour to extreme violence, up to and including murder, but any of which causes harm or potential harm to the organisation. Broadly speaking workplace deviance falls into two distinct categories, Interpersonal Deviance and Organisational Deviance.
Interpersonal deviance is misconduct which targets specific co-workers and includes behaviours such as gossiping about them, blaming them for things that are not their fault, falsely raising grievances against them and so on. It is believed that these unhealthy behaviours may be due to jealousy of the target co-workers abilities or a sense of entitlement. In other words the misbehaviour has one aim, to benefit the person doing it.
Organisation deviance is behaviour aimed at the organisation itself and most frequently manifests itself as frequent lateness or excessive absenteeism.
Workplace deviance can vary greatly, from minor non-violent misbehaviour to extreme violence, up to and including murder, but any of which causes harm or potential harm to the organisation. Broadly speaking workplace deviance falls into two distinct categories, Interpersonal Deviance and Organisational Deviance.
Interpersonal deviance is misconduct which targets specific co-workers and includes behaviours such as gossiping about them, blaming them for things that are not their fault, falsely raising grievances against them and so on. It is believed that these unhealthy behaviours may be due to jealousy of the target co-workers abilities or a sense of entitlement. In other words the misbehaviour has one aim, to benefit the person doing it.
Organisation deviance is behaviour aimed at the organisation itself and most frequently manifests itself as frequent lateness or excessive absenteeism.
Workplace Deviance by AKACroatalin September 26, 2015
Divine Bliss
Divine Bliss by Eye.of.Ra February 4, 2019
dumpster-diving
(verb) The act of entering garbage dumpsters, often those closest to stores and grocers, in the hopes of finding and procuring food and/or merchandise that has been thrown away by the businesses. Acquired items are then either consumed or resold for profit. Possibly illegal in some states, dumpster diving has been given a bad wrap because of some divers lack of decent, courteous etiquette (i.e. throwing trash out of the dumpster and then never putting it back in the dumpster when finished.
Sometimes D.I. and Tonya would hit the jackpot when they went dumpster-diving. Why one night D.I. acquired a leather coat that the slick little bastard resold for some three-figured amount. Though frowned upon by some, dumpster diving could pay off beaucoup on some evenings.
dumpster-diving by Nikki Stixx May 7, 2019
hotel cart diving
Picking through some possibly tasty morsels and sealed jellies, mayo, mustard, maybe even silverware on an abandoned hotel cart in a good hotel.
We never take condiments like salt, pepper, mustard, ketchup etc on our Vegas trips we just resort to Hotel Cart Diving.
3am, restaurants closed and BEHOLD a Traders Giottos italian sub SEALED and still on ice parked outside suite 666, sweet!
The Goddess wouldn't want all those unopened Jelly Jars to go to waste on a hotel cart, somebody has to eat the Orange Marmalade...DIVE DIVE DIVE!
3am, restaurants closed and BEHOLD a Traders Giottos italian sub SEALED and still on ice parked outside suite 666, sweet!
The Goddess wouldn't want all those unopened Jelly Jars to go to waste on a hotel cart, somebody has to eat the Orange Marmalade...DIVE DIVE DIVE!
hotel cart diving by BayAreaWillI September 16, 2013
Diving for Oysters
Cunnilingus. Deep oral sex with a female on the receiving end. Generally excludes the clitoris and other external genitalia, focusing on the vaginal canal itself.
Diving for Oysters by Cic August 27, 2013
Past Diving
Spending time going through sentimental items or messages in order to feel what you felt when you first received them. This is easily done through Facebook and Myspace, but can include going through messages/posts/comments on other social networking sites, emails, or old items in drawers in your room (e.g., that letter that your ex-boyfriend wrote you six years ago in which he swore he'd never leave you, although everyone and their mom knew he one day would).
April: "Where's Mike been? I haven't seen him in days!"
Chris: "He's probably hauled up in his room past diving again"
Chris: "He's probably hauled up in his room past diving again"
Past Diving by JasonSummers January 9, 2010
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Boffin
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
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