Name that feeling
There is a lot of narrative in the corporate world about naming and acknowledging emotions and feelings in the workplace. This is not always easy.
Have you been in a situation where it seems that there are no words? Have you had feeling or emotions that you find difficult to describe?
All of the feelings & behaviours listed below will damage or negatively impact your culture - you should really be aware of them and pre-empt them or work quickly to turn them around!
Accuntability
Accuntability is a word smash of accountability and c*nt and it means taking accountability for being a toxic, obnoxious person (c*nt).
Affluenza
Affluenza is a word smash of Affluence and Influenza and has come to mean someone suffering from an unsustainable obsession that arises from constantly chasing more wealthy or success. It has been known to affect wealthy young people causing a psychological malaise, symptoms of which include a lack of motivation, feelings of guilt, and a sense of isolation - "they want for nothing yet are crippled by affluenza".
Apanthropy
If a person is suffering from Apanthropy they have an aversion to human company and want to be left alone.
BEACH
BEACH is an acronym meaning Best Escape Anyone Can Have
Betwatted
If a person is Betwatted, they are in a state of affairs where they are perplexed, bewildered and generally not with it.
BRAFF
BRAFF is an acronym meaning Beyond Repair And Fully F*cked!
Clinomania
Clinomania is a condition where you have an obsession with or profound desire to stay in bed.
CoffunkAL
Coffunkal is a type of word smash of coffee and funk, it is the feeling of being in a funk due to the lack of caffeine in your system.
Conflama
Conflama and is a word smash of Conflict and Drama, and describes a situation in which both conflict and dram are occuring simultaneously.
CRAFT
CRAFT is an acronym meaning Can't Remember A F*cking Thing!
DEJA BREW
Déja Brew happens when you are so drained and yet you have the memory of the energy you experienced after having your last coffee
DEJA POO
Déja Poo is an evolution of the French phrase, Déja Vu, which means already seen or experienced. However Déja Poo is the feeling or having already experience the current unpleasant situation, or it can be like being stuck in a rut - basically it is the same sh*t, just another day.
Depresso
Depresso happens when you are in a situation that is so bad that no amount of coffee is going to fix it.
Destinasia
Destinasia is a word smash of destination and amnesia, it is a condition where you arrive at your destination but you have no memory of why you went there.
Dysania
Dysania is a condition where you have an extreme difficulty getting out of bed or have an inability to leave the bed for about 1 to 2 hours after you wake up.
EDUTAINMENT
This is a word smash of Education and Entertainment. Edutainment is a valuable way of delivering educational materials, it means you are educating in an entertaining manner. This is more likely to engage your audience.
Enshitifacation
Enshitifacation is a situation where something started very well, however slowly but surely it all turned into a massive shit show.
Exhaustipated
Exhaustipated is a word smash of exhausted and constipated, it means that you are too tired to give a sh*t.
Faff
To faff is to perform in a chaotic way – it comes from the ancient word faffle which is to flap like a flag
Forslug
Forslug means neglecting through idleness or sluggishness. If you have wasted time scrolling on your phone, you might say, “I have forslugged the entire morning by staring at my phone”.
Forswunk
Forswunk means exhausted by labour, overworked. Swink, is a Middle English word meaning toil, work, drudgery, effort; hardship. If you were swinked or swunk, you were toil-worn or fatigued.
Fuckastrophe
Fuckastrophe is a word smash of f*ck and catastrophe - It is a situation when anything and everything can go wrong and does go wrong; it can all be tracked back to one idiotic f*cker.
Fucktose Intolerant
This condition occurs when you can no longer tolerate anymore fecking bullshit!
HAGRIDDEN
Hagridden means troubled with worry, having nightmares, fear, obsession, or similar torments. The term is connected to witchcraft—specifically, how witches were believed to ride brooms and trouble unsuspecting people with spells or bad dreams. Gradually, it started to refer to anything causing personal distress. The word captures our mental anguish in this fast-paced, stress-filled world.
knackered
Knackered means tired, worn out, exhausted or broken. The word originated from the 19th century, where a "knacker" was used to describe a person who slaughters or castrates old or sick horses. As an aside, this can also be the reason that a man’s genitalia can be referred to as their knackers! Going back to being exhausted and in keeping with the horse references, it is often said when you get to the end of your teether, you are fit for the knacker’s yard!
Lalochezia
Lalochezia is of Greek origin, ‘lalo’ translates as speech and ‘chezo’ translates as defecation or relieving oneself. Therefore Lalochezia means the use of vulgar or foul language to relieve stress or pain.
Matutolypea
Matutolypea comes from the Latin word matutinal meaning, pertaining to the morning. Matutolypea is being a morning grouch, in both Latin and Greek it means ‘grief of the dawn’!
Mockstalgia
Mockstalgia is the feeling of fondly remembering or harping back to the old old days, but in fact those past time were not anywhere nearly as good as you remember.
Mondaze
This describes the spaced out feeling you get on a Monday morning as you realise the weekend is over!
Mubble-Fubbles
Mubble-fubbles is a 16th century word, and if you are suffering from the mubble-fubbles you have a sense of melancholy or low spirits, typical of the Sunday evening blues.
Mulligrubs
If you are suffering from Mulligrubs you are in a despondent, sullen, or ill-tempered mood, have a form of sulkiness
Offensivitis
Offensivitis is a condition that sees a person taking offense at everything being said, even if it is not about them!
OtherING
Being Othered is a process whereby individuals and groups are treated and marked as different and inferior from the dominant social group. Disenfranchised groups such as women, people of divergent ethnic backgrounds, working-class people, homosexuals, or migrants may all be othered and, in consequence, suffer discrimination. In a 1:1 situation, it can be putting people different from you in an oppositional position as the ‘other’. In doing so, creating a space between your identity and theirs, while also inherently attaching a judgement to the other or others
Overcark
Overcark is a word smash of Over and Cark. Cark describes that which burdens the spirit, or causes you trouble, so it can be used when you have a troubled state of mind, you are in distress, suffering from anxiety! When you are overcark, you can take no more!
Perkatory
Perkatory is the agonising time while you wait for your fresh pot of coffee to perculate!
Pissedified
Pissedified and is a word smash of p*ssed off and mystified, and it happens when you are equally p*ssed off and mystified at somebody’s stupidity and reasoning.
Poophoria
Poophoria is a real medical term related to the occasions when the vagus nerves are stimulated by passing of stools, this causes a feeling of elation. In your work life it can be like when you get rid of a load of sh*t and you feel an enormous sense of relief and happiness.
Pootience
Pootience is a word smash of Poo and Patience, it happens when someone really tests your patience and you manage not to lose your sh*t – you show shown great pootience!
Pre-annoyed
Pre-annoyed is the feeling you get when you know whatever is coming is going to really wind you up. You adopt and annoyed attitude as a pre-emptive strike!
Premature Articulation
There are two explanations for premature articulation, the first is when you start talking before your brain is engaged and it does not end well, so you have spoken too soon!
The other explanation is when someone interrupts the flow of conversation, however what they have to say has nothing to do with what was being talking about.
PresensING
Presensing is a word smash coined by Otto Scharmer, he joins “Presence” as in the state of being in the present moment, and “Sensing” as in the sense of feeling future possibility in your body. Presencing is not just about learning from your reflections and past experience, but rather it refers to the ability to sense and bring into the present the highest future potential—as an individual and as a group. It goes beyond the logical and rational mind and is this felt sense that we must open ourselves to and trust in it, as it brings your future vision and highest possibilities into the present moment. It is countercultural, and intuitive - it is your felt sense.
Quanked
Quanked is a condition in which one's energy and vitality has been consumed. Someone who is quanked, is threadbare, exhausted or shattered they have used up their bodily or mental resources, usually because of arduous labour or long-sustained effort.
Ramfeezle
Ramfeezle is of Scottish origin and means being disarranged and muddled by exhaustion. The verb feezle means weary, spent, exhausted, stupefied to the point of confusion and being muddled.
Retired
Retired is the feeling you get when you were tired yesterday and you are tired again today!
Technostress
Technostress was coined by American psychotherapist Craig Brod in 1984. Even before the digital age, Brod described this new form of stress as “a modern disease of adaptation caused by an inability to cope with the new computer technologies in a healthy manner.
Trumperiness
This is a 19th century word that originates from the French verb ‘tromper’ which means to deceive. The noun trumpery means showy and worthless finery. Therefore to be in a state of trumperiness is to be extremely flashy without any merit or truth to support it.
Twitipated
Twitipated is a word smash of Twitter and Constipated, it means that you are fed up scrolling or looking at a screen and you no longer give a sh*t.
Unkeyboardinated
Unkeyboardinated is that feeling you get when everything you type makes absolutely no sense and appears full of errors (in reality it probably is!).
Womancipated
Womancipated is the feeling a woman gets when she has taken back her power and set herself free or been released from constraints, especially from work, social, or political restrictions.