Scallywags

Scallywags are non-union members, who are given sanction (by the International Longshoremen’s Association) to work when not enough card-carrying longshoremen are available to handle the workload.

Source:

"On the Waterfront"
By Phil Primack, Boston Magazine, March 2006

Last Monday, a ship arrived in port carrying more cargo than the union longshoremen could unload within the required time period, so scallywags were allowed to work with union members on that job.

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Going Postdoctoral

Describes a situation when a person with a PhD goes on a killing rampage.

A variation of going postal, but used to describe a person with a doctoral degree.

" But of course lots of people--even Harvard grads!--suffer career setbacks, and few of them go postal (or should we say postdoctoral?). source: "Going Postdoctoral The bizarre case of Prof. Amy Bishop, Wall Street Journal Online, February 18, 2010.

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