voluntold

voluntold
1. (voluntold) (2209↑, 450↓)
voluntold: The exact opposite of volunteering. Always used in reference to an unpleasant task to which you have been assigned by your boss.

Example 1: Co-worker 1: I hear you got a transfer. Co-worker 2: Yeah. I didn't want to, but I was voluntold. Example 2: Co-worker 1: You want to go fishing Saturday??? Co-worker 2: I can't, I got voluntold I have to work this weekend.

2. (voluntold) (216↑, 95↓)
forciby volunteered. A task that was once voluntary has now been ordered to you.

"You slack ass ensigns. Since none of you are going to volunteer, consider yourselves all voluntold. See you tomorrow morning at 0600."

3. (voluntold) (80↑, 49↓)
to be told that you have been volunteered for something. volunteered without your express consent or knowledge.

I was voluntold for the charity event at my fraternity house by my brother.

4. (Voluntold) (10↑, 2↓)
To be volunteered without asking you first. Told to do something without your consent.

Colin was voluntold by Ivan to organize the potluck event.

5. (Voluntold) (81↑, 73↓)
When someone "volunteers" someone else for something so that the other person really doesn't have a choice.

My boss voluntold me for the United Way Campaign.

6. (Voluntold) (5↑, 0↓)
Not volunteering for something but then being told by someone with a higher authority to do it.

Adult: Who would you like to volunteer paint the fence today? *No-one answers Adult: OK Billy your going to it. Teenager 2: You just got voluntold.

7. (voluntold) (5↑, 0↓)
The act of "volunteering" someone for something without giving them the choice.

"How's that ergonomics training you've been in all week?" "Pretty good, even though I was voluntold for it. I thought it was gonna be boring, but it's a lot of fun\!"

8. (Voluntold) (4↑, 2↓)
Being volunteered for something by a spouce or significant other that you were totally unaware of.

My wife voluntold me that I was going to coach our sons soccer team.

9. (voluntold) (1↑, 0↓)
Being told what to do but made to look like you volunteered.

I was voluntold to drive grandma to bingo.

10. (Voluntold) (0↑, 0↓)
to be volunteered, usually by your wife, for an undesirable task that you must grin and bare.

I was voluntold to drive my inlaws to the airport at 3:30 am

11. (voluntold) (0↑, 0↓)
being involuntarily volunteered to perform a job or task as a result of being absent from a business meeting

I was unable to attend the staff meeting this morning and, as a consequence, I was "voluntold" to take on the responsibility for completing several critical assignments

12. (voluntold) (0↑, 0↓)
When a person is not given an option to volunteer; instead, they are told that they must

When my friend decided not to volunteer to help set up for the sports banquet, he was voluntold by his boss that he should.

13. (voluntold) (2↑, 5↓)
Voluntold is the past tense of voluntell. To "voluntell" someone to [volunteer] them to do something without having that subject's prior approval. The situation most frequently occurs in situations with large numbers of volunteers who don't have specific duties within the area they have volunteered. The situation also occurs in small group situations in which someone is required to volunteer for a task but nobody raises their hand. They thus become "voluntold" to do the task by the group leader.

I didn't feel like volunteering to join the cooking staff, so the director voluntold me I had to do it.

14. (voluntold) (3↑, 6↓)
When you refuse to volunteer and then are told to complete the task anyway. Generally used in the military by sergants.

MSgt. "Would you like to police the area for cigerette butts?" SrA. "No Sgt. i wouldn't." MSgt. "Well in that case consider you self voluntold."

15. (Voluntold) (5↑, 8↓)
The act of promising the services of others.

Wife to friend: I'll get hubby to come out and paint your ceiling on Saturday. Hubby: I can't go golfing with you pal, I was voluntold to paint someone's ceiling.

16. (voluntold) (12↑, 15↓)
When a parent volunteers his/her child then tells the child the task they have been volunteered for. Bosses are also good for voluntolding employees to certain tasks.

My Dad voluntold me to help at the church picnic.

17. (voluntold) (44↑, 50↓)
When someone, for example your boss, "volunteers" you for something, then tells you that you have to do it.

Chris: Hey Joe, Are you going to the alcoholiday \</a\> with me this weekend? Joe: No I can't ... My boss Phil voluntold me to write a news article for the company's weekly newsletter...

18. (voluntold) (39↑, 51↓)
When your boss is asking for volunteers but really is telling you that he wants you to do the task.

\#1 - I can't believe that Maggie volunteered for that task\! \#2 - She didn't, she was voluntold by her boss.

19. (voluntold) (9↑, 22↓)
The act of being asked to perform a task without any real option to decline, generally by a work superior who just didn't feel like doing it themselves.

James: "How did you end up getting this [bullshift]?" Peter: "I got voluntold."

20. (Voluntold) (23↑, 43↓)
Being told or ordered to [volunteer].

"Jane was voluntold to enter in the contest."

Author: Matt Alexander. http://voluntold.urbanup.com/2608828
Related: volunteer, told, forced, volunteered, job, assigned, ordered, tell
Last updated: 2012.03.01

Urban English dictionary. 2013.

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