shturmovshchina
Mar. 11th, 2014 07:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordshturmovshchina (your guess is as good as mine) - n., a burst of work before a deadline after a period of procrastination.
A Soviet-era terms, from when factories would have quotas to make but no raw materials, leaving workers to sit around until shortly before the deadline, after which there was a frantic burst of work using whatever was at hand and produce X number of very shoddy whatnots. At least, according to the story. Shturm is a storm or also an assault, shturmovat the noun form, and the rest a derogatory suffix. This of course has no bearing whatsoever on my deadline today, having consistently and conscientiously worked on it for a month, indeed I did.
---L.
A Soviet-era terms, from when factories would have quotas to make but no raw materials, leaving workers to sit around until shortly before the deadline, after which there was a frantic burst of work using whatever was at hand and produce X number of very shoddy whatnots. At least, according to the story. Shturm is a storm or also an assault, shturmovat the noun form, and the rest a derogatory suffix. This of course has no bearing whatsoever on my deadline today, having consistently and conscientiously worked on it for a month, indeed I did.
---L.
