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Broad classification for work & office.
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The overwhelming state of can't-be-asked exhaustion that hits while logged into a call centre system, where every incoming beep fills you with pure dread and you do the bare absolute minimum just to survive the shift.
Read full entry →To lean over an employee's desk during a micromanaging rant, blasting a hot, stale cloud of old instant coffee and cheap milk directly into their face with every word.
Read full entry →A customer who waits for the exact moment a customer service agent says, "Is there anything else I can help you with?" just to hijack the script with the single most unoriginal, overused "winning lottery numbers" joke in retail history.
Read full entry →A barked, micromanaging command hurled across a call centre floor by a power-tripping manager to force an advisor off post-call administration and straight back into the queue, treating seconds spent documenting a customer case as pure laziness.
Read full entry →When a manager who hasn't done ground-level work in five years confidently explains how to do your exact job, using outdated methods, incorrect jargon, and an unbearable patronizing smile.
Read full entry →The tendency for meetings to expand well beyond their allotted duration without obvious reason.
Read full entry →A state of intense concentration induced by staring at a tiny moving scooter icon.
Read full entry →A dignified conversational withdrawal that avoids further disagreement.
Read full entry →A sentence that technically recognises an effort while enthusiastically withholding praise.
Read full entry →Attempting to neutralise an offensive statement by announcing it beforehand.
Read full entry →A conversational formality whose answer has absolutely no effect on what follows.
Read full entry →The comforting idea that no matter how bad things are, an even worse version probably exists.
Read full entry →The conversational signal that nobody wishes to acknowledge whose fault the situation actually was.
Read full entry →Ending discussion of an avoidable disaster by pretending it was somehow inevitable.
Read full entry →An expression of effortless reassurance hiding significant internal stress.
Read full entry →Pretending to consider a suggestion while mentally discarding it forever.
Read full entry →A perfectly clear rejection disguised as a tentative possibility.
Read full entry →A verbal alarm signalling that the next sentence will be considerably less respectful than advertised.
Read full entry →Replacing honest criticism with the safely meaningless word 'interesting'.
Read full entry →A prolonged struggle between a shopper and a self-closing freezer door.
Read full entry →Purchasing an item solely because it completes a supermarket promotion.
Read full entry →The frantic, flailing dance performed by a human who has just taken an invisible, sticky thread directly across the eyeballs.
Read full entry →A highly modulated, emotionally dead emission of amusement deployed exclusively upwards in a corporate hierarchy.
Read full entry →A deafening, percussive hammering of a laptop keyboard designed to emit an aura of intense hostility across an open-plan office.
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