Employment Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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24-spot n. Ms. Beyar, 51, of Rockville Centre, L.I., accused Mosier of denying her request for a “24-spot” work schedule consisting of one day on and three days off. Mosier also rejected her as a chauffeur by selecting a male firefighter to drive him to and from fires, and denied overtime pay by crossing Ms. Beyar’s name off a log sheet. [English Employment Firefighting Jargon New or Nonce] [full cite] (May. 22, 2007)

3-D job n. The “3-D jobs” are the ones filled mostly by migrant workers, and the term stands for dirty, dangerous and difficult. These words describe Negroponte’s career: the man is willing to take very tough jobs and he always performs them with aplomb. [English Employment] [full cite] (Oct. 12, 2006)

3-D job n. “This has been described as a real ‘3-D’ job: demanding, dirty and dangerous,” Mr. Nakabo said. “Nobody really wants to be a part of it.” [English Employment] [full cite] (Oct. 13, 2006)

3-K job n. With Japanese youth shying from so-called 3-K jobs—referring to the Japanese words for labor that is dirty, dangerous or physically taxing—Alsok, the nation’s second-largest security guard company, has developed a line of robo-cops. [English Japan Employment] [full cite] (Mar. 13, 2005)

adminisdribble n. As I looked at what needed to be done by the team, I had categorized a host of tasks as “adminisdribble”—administrative tasks that shouldn’t be on the desks of senior IT and security staffers. [English Business Employment] [full cite] (Feb. 7, 2008)

ankling n. Jon Goldman, who has headed the Irvine-based company since The Collective and Backbone Entertainment merged almost three years ago, is “ankling,” as we say in Variety parlance. That means he’s not quitting in the most believable way, but he wasn’t officially fired either. Somewhere in between. [English Employment Slang] [full cite] (Mar. 21, 2008)

arbiter n. When I insist to the restaurant part-time waitresses, or “arbiters,” a Korean term borrowed from German, that I want nothing less than the very hottest variety of tak-galbi, they give me a look of disbelief. [German Korean Employment] [full cite] (Aug. 21, 2005)

Aspenize v. The planning industry has a term for it: “Aspenizing.” “You’re getting so affluent you can’t live there,” Carpenter said. “Nobody can live there.” Restrictive zoning in the celebrity-laden resort town of Aspen, Colo. priced out its work force. So, workers live in outlying communities and commute, some up to 100 miles a day. [English Employment Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (Jul. 31, 2006)

autogestion n. The ideas of worker ownership and worker self-management (also known as autogestion) are hardly new or even unusual; there are hundreds of such places in Latin America, thousands across the world, and they even enjoyed something of a vogue in the US in the latter 1970s. [English Employment] [full cite] (Dec. 12, 2008)

Bedouin n. If only we Bedouins—to use a term catching on in San Francisco to describe roaming workers armed with laptops and cellphones—could unionize. Suggested motto: Coffee-shop squatters of the world, unite! [English Employment New or Nonce Slang] [full cite] (Aug. 30, 2007)

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