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productivity 

Productivity is an endless cycle. You can never be productive enough.

So what if instead of us humans getting tired, our computers would start saying "Please, I'm tired."?
I wish my productivity was higher, but my computer is so tired, it falls asleep every 5 minutes.
productivity by tireddesktop January 17, 2024

productivity 

Productivity is a never ending cycle. You can never be productive enough.
So what if instead of us humans getting tired our computers would start saying "Please, I'm tired."?
I wish my productivity was higher but my computer keeps falling asleep every 5 minutes.
productivity by tireddesktop January 17, 2024

Productivity Czar 

Used in sitcom "The Office". To be assigned to observe co-workers' work activity. Basically a snitch.
I don't have time to see that you all are doing your job, so John, you be the productivity czar.
Productivity Czar by IllinoisPam March 26, 2009

productivity throttling controls 

Security devices and configurations which inhibit or minimize employee productivity. Employee productivity may be impacted by limiting access to information, communication and computing functionality, as well as by limiting computing performance. Controls may block websites, may block communication channels such as IRC, may slow computing devices by using full-disk encryption, antivirus, and spyware, may break applications by performing man-in-the-middle attacks and by misconfiguring applications. For some employees, substantial effort may be expended to find workarounds to bypass controls.
Brenda: Why won’t IE open this site?
Tim: The productivity throttling controls are misconfigured to arbitrarily disable TLS connections in IE. Go into Tools and enable TLS connections.

The productivity throttling controls won’t allow Firefox to get a critical update that addresses a vulnerability. Now I need to download the update and manually install. What a waste of time.

My workstation is churning away because of having to scan the large email attachment that I received. Because of the productivity throttling controls, I am unable to even switch tabs in my web browser.

Bill: Websense is prohibiting me from downloading a library I need to complete this work.
Me: We’ll let customer wait another day for the deliverable while I bypass the productivity throttling controls by downloading the library at home tonight and supplying to you on a USB tomorrow.

Productivity Addict

A person who is addicted to gadgets, hacks, websites, and tools that could — in theory — make life more productive.
Kevin Rose is such a productivity addict, he owns so many gadgets and reads too many blogs.
Productivity Addict by hackaddict December 15, 2008

productivity bun 

A hairdo done in a hurry that serves a bigger purpose in life than most hairdos: Productivity. The higher the bun the more productive one will be.
Example 1
Coworker 1: Hey I have a questio--
Coworker 2: Not now, I'm in the zone.
Coworker 1 to Coworker 3: (whispers) I should have known, just look at that productivity bun.

Example 2
"Guys can have productivity buns too. My friend Nathaniel has one, and he's a famous DJ."
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Frothability 

The measure of an emotional and over zealous consumer in an upwardly charging market, also known as a bull market. It's characterized by rising asset prices, increased investor confidence, and favorable growth in the markets, bro.
The frothability was evident as over-zealous consumers eagerly engaged in bidding wars, driving property prices to unsustainable levels reminiscent of previous speculative bubbles.
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Soul digger

A man who dates women with the sole purpose of exploiting their time, energy, and labor while he sucks the joy and happiness from their lives.
"That guy's a soul digger. He'll expect you to work full time, but you'll be doing all the cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping, and childcare while he plays video games or watches TV."
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pod person 

A person pretending to be something they aren't, or an impostor. This is inferred because of the old alien movies where alien pods appear on earth and the "pod people" dispose of the humans and slowly reproduce the bodies, pretending to be humans.
The pod person was pretending to be my father, but I knew that he was an alien when he acted differently than my father ever would have.
pod person by Christopher M. May 9, 2005
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