Amazon: Coining New Terms in a Time of Crisis and Money Gushers
May 7, 2020
Our news filtering system (not quite as effective as Google’s, however) spotted a Ycombinator Hacker News post about Amazon. The topic was treatment of warehouse workers in the wake of the Tim Bray hasta la vista, conquistadores. Deep in the comment thread was a new word, a coinage, a neologism! Here’s the word:
Frupid
The author of the comment noted:
Given how a key Amazon value is being “frugal” or often times called “frupid” internally, they regularly have little resources for FTEs let alone the workers in warehouses.
This is a useful term. Frupid. DarkCyber likes it.
Stephen E Arnold, May 7, 2020
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https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Frupid
Frupid
A derisive portmanteau of “frugal” and “stupid” used especially within dysfunctional corporate environments where management espouses “frugality” as a virtue yet fails to distinguish between this and “cheap.”
Manager: I changed your server order from the m1.large nodes to VIC-20s. It’s too expensive.
Engineer: There’s no way we’ll be able to keep the site running on VIC-20s!
Manager: Oh, remind me to dock you for not being frugal in your next performance review.
Engineer: I think you mean frupid.
#cheap#stingy#frugal#stupid#penny wise pound foolish#froopid#budget#bargain
by Perfectly Gruntled April 10, 2014