dooce

When Heather Armstrong - a self-proclaimed professional blogger who goes by the name dooce - talked to Maytag about her brand new, broken Maytag washing machine that three service calls had failed to fix, the customer support rep was deaf to her pleas.

Josh Bernoff: Empowered: Managing In Real Time 2010

When Heather Armstrong - a self-proclaimed professional blogger who goes by the name dooce - talked to Maytag about her brand new, broken Maytag washing machine that three service calls had failed to fix, the customer support rep was deaf to her pleas.

Josh Bernoff: Empowered: Managing In Real Time 2010

I’d like to refer you to the last response in dooce’s FAQ:

reprieve 2008

It's always: 'Simpson, where the dooce is my puttees?' or

Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France Vernon Bartlett 1938

"Drop him a line, sir," suggested Bones, "he's a remarkable feller -- dash it all, sir, what the dooce is the good of bein 'in charge of the district if you can't put a stop to that sort of thing?"

Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country Edgar Wallace 1903

"But what the dooce is a note-of-hand?" said Beetle.

Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900

"Hold your tongue," interrupted the Irishman, anxiously; "but look, what the dooce are the girls up to with your black boys?"

Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series Bracebridge Hemyng 1871

The term "dooce," which Armstrong coined, refers to being fired for writing on the Internet about one's boss or coworkers -- one of Armstrong's pre-motherhood misadventures - and has entered the lexicon, or at least Urban Dictionary (as in "I've been dooced.")

Examiner California Headlines 2010

Urban dictionaries now define the word "dooce" as getting fired for blogging about work.

unknown title 2009

She has more than a million followers on Twitter at www. twitter.com/dooce.

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