We Have to Make the Operating Model Work

A phrase often said by a person, usually a person in a management role, who requires specific tasks to be completed but does not have the knowledge or skill set to complete the task his or herself.

A head chef was hired despite having no cooking experience and told me to cook a new chicken platter. When I asked at what temperature should I cook the chicken, the chef replied "We Have to Make the Operating Model Work."

I was given a task to build a gingerbread house with only a dirty q-tip and a used condom. When I asked my manager in what fucked up world this makes any sense, he replied "We Have to Make the Operating Model Work."

by GrimReaper408 April 1, 2025

Work

Work is what the plug supplies you with.

Yo, I'm going to need that work when I get off.

by Andradeism March 5, 2022

Works at the post office

A term used to describe somebody who is clearly on drugs and/or schizophrenic

Person 1: Do you see that crazy old geezer on the street
Person 2: He definitely works at the post office

by Wadda 147 July 6, 2023

Work ethic

When an individual cannot be fucked doing any work for themselves or the benifit of others

Work ethic:
Alex still hasn't marked any assessment from 6 months ago letting his students suffer #noworkethic

"Alex, do you have our marks?" Alex: "They will be up tonight"

#bullshit

by BIT-STUMPY November 5, 2018

We have no idea how AI works

Yeah, you didn't fucking come up with the thing so why the fuck would you?

Anthropic CEO "We have no idea how AI works."

Hym "Yeah, no shit retard. You're reverse engineering a thing of which you did not conceive."

Anthropic CEO "I know. We just stole the idea from the urban dictionary guy!"

by Hym Iam May 4, 2025

Working Boys'd

tgwdlm version of a Rick Roll, where you end up reading all the names of the Working Boys; Henry, Greg and Steve and Stu and Mark and Leighton and . . . Chad

Markets are crashing and I'm at the edge of my wits
I just can't take it
When all I want to do
Is spend the day with Greg . . . And Steve . . . And Stu . . . And Mark . . . And Leighton . . . And Chad

Me: ha-ha you just got Working Boys'd

(Credit: StarKid - The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals)

by SkyWarrior365 January 4, 2021

Work

Cocaine

Are you coming to the party? We doing lines of work

by angvlo August 4, 2017