One who is fearful of others stealing their job. A person who needs to gain information about a coworker in order to
a.use it against them
b.sabotage
c.stroke their ego by knowing anything and everything.
Often times they're seen removing their glasses in an effort to look busy and/or important, carrying paperwork and walking briskly as if they're in a hurry.
They will usually preface their response to the question "how's it going" with a large 'sigh' or 'exhale' and will continue walking past and turn slightly in your direction spewing 'work jargon' at you in an effort to seem extra busy.
a.use it against them
b.sabotage
c.stroke their ego by knowing anything and everything.
Often times they're seen removing their glasses in an effort to look busy and/or important, carrying paperwork and walking briskly as if they're in a hurry.
They will usually preface their response to the question "how's it going" with a large 'sigh' or 'exhale' and will continue walking past and turn slightly in your direction spewing 'work jargon' at you in an effort to seem extra busy.
"uh oh, Rat Engine is coming, QUICK HIDE"
"Rat Engine tried to make me look bad in front of my supervisor today."
"Rat Engine tried to make me look bad in front of my supervisor today."
by Chill-OOT October 9, 2008
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1:a glorified grease monkey with an engineering degree that does useless paperwork all day.
2: the nuclear plant equivalent to calling a McDonald's employee a "Culinary Logistics Engineer"
2:an overpaid, white-collar mechanic that is unworthy of the honorable 'engineer' title
3:a sucker who worked hard in college to earn a degree in electrical engineering; who now spends his days wishing he knew how to juggle and swallow fire so that he could join the circus
1:a glorified grease monkey with an engineering degree that does useless paperwork all day.
2: the nuclear plant equivalent to calling a McDonald's employee a "Culinary Logistics Engineer"
2:an overpaid, white-collar mechanic that is unworthy of the honorable 'engineer' title
3:a sucker who worked hard in college to earn a degree in electrical engineering; who now spends his days wishing he knew how to juggle and swallow fire so that he could join the circus
Young Child: Mommy...is that poorly dressed man a bum?
Mother: No honey, that's not a bum...that's just a breaker engineer.
Mother: No honey, that's not a bum...that's just a breaker engineer.
by breaker engineer October 23, 2008
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lacking the ability to use common search engines to find answers to general inquiries or devoid of the mental capacity to realize that common search engines can lead to answering almost 99.9% of questions; lacking the sense to research the answer to a question via a search engine.
Rather than searching Google for her answer, Becky decided to wait on hold for 30 minutes to ask what airport was closet to her resort destination. She must be suffering from Search Engine Syndrome
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For example: low-tech hackers, people who do everything wrong by accident or on purpose and are therefore well-positioned to think of loopholes or the what-ifs, and all of the people underrepresented at present in engineering (women, queers, blacks) at present (and subject to change).
For example: low-tech hackers, people who do everything wrong by accident or on purpose and are therefore well-positioned to think of loopholes or the what-ifs, and all of the people underrepresented at present in engineering (women, queers, blacks) at present (and subject to change).
S1: Reverse engineers are often Pynchon fans don't ask me why.
S2: Did you hear the news? Engineering was seriously lacking in action and they finally had to let all of the reverse engineers in so that people could get their groove on. Hears Nelly playing in the background ... "it's getting hot in here, let's take off all our clothes!"
S2: Did you hear the news? Engineering was seriously lacking in action and they finally had to let all of the reverse engineers in so that people could get their groove on. Hears Nelly playing in the background ... "it's getting hot in here, let's take off all our clothes!"
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