Slang word of the day: boreout

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boreout

• extreme boredom with one's job, leading to reduced performance and life satisfaction. Compare with burnout.

  Are you irritable when you return from work? Drained of emotion? You could be suffering from boreout.
  
  -- "Forget burnout, boreout is the new office disease", Times Online, Roger Boyes, September 15, 2007

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Sep 29 2009  (Edit definition)

• For more information, see the Wikipedia article for boreout.

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Feb 20 2010  (Edit definition)

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)