Adapted from somewhere on the Internet to recruiting.

TESTICULATING
Waving your arms around and talking b*llocks. Especially after speaking with hiring managers...

BLAMESTORMING
Sitting round in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible. It was those idiot agency people; those corporate recruiters are morons...

SEAGULL MANAGER
A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves. Also known as hiring managers who are convinced they are the world's best recruiters...

SALMON DAY
The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die. Like when you've spent days putting together a slate when suddenly the search is put on hold...

OH-NO SECOND
That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all'). Or included the hiring manager or corporate recruiter on your "I hate morons" email..

ADMINISPHERE
The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the "adminisphere" are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" - needless paperwork and processes. Often referred to by recruiters as that "*&^*&%%^#%$@# Vendor Management System"

404
Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message '404 Not Found' meaning that the requested document could not be located. Used by recruiters everywhere.

SALAD DODGER
An excellent phrase for an overweight person. Part of the secret code used by clueless hiring people that enables the equally clueless recruiter to discriminate against certain people.

SWAMP-DONKEY
A deeply unattractive person. See Salad Dodger. Used by many male executives when hiring their assistants - as in "I ain't riding no swamp donkies."

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Can apply to all sides of the recruiting equation.

Heather Bussing said:
One of my favorites is

Bozone-- the area of stupidity surrounding the idiot you are dealing with.
multi-slacking: doing various slackerish things at once instead of working
ex: posting on recruitingblogs.com, tweeting on your phone, listening to internet radio all at once would be considered multi-slacking.

urbandictionary.com is an excellent source for just this sort of thing. I would highly recommend everyone register for their word-of-the-day in their personal email.

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