Help Vampire

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. A person who repeatedly drains time and attention from others with avoidable questions or dependency. In engineering slang, the phrase is unkind but reflects real frustration when support habits become one-way extraction.

    In plain English: A person who repeatedly drains others' time with avoidable requests for help.

    Example: "The onboarding process had created help vampires by making it easier to ask in chat than to find answers in docs that barely existed."

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