Copper wire management

Management style focusing solely on relaying information and instruction from the ownership level to the staff level and vice versa. A Copper wire is simply a conductor which transfers energy from one end to the other, it does not generate a spark on its own. As such appropriately named, this management style does not initiate any process, legitimate or perceived, it takes no responsibility for outcomes by routinely holding the other end of the copper wire responsible when one end has raised any issue.

I just got a crap load of work piled on me by my manager and I complained to him.... but all he said was don't blame me I only relay information from the top.

He's pulling some major copper wire management tactics on you!!!

by S and S man November 23, 2011

windows task manager

to end things

or show every task

pls use windows task manager to end windows explorer.

by tre2012 September 6, 2015

I am the manager

What you say to customers, who have nothing better to do than complain and blame you for their life problems, when they believe that you are the bane of their existence ( usually via coupons expiring, websites being faulty or the weather being dangerous), but it is your job to not only deal with said problems, but also show that you know exactly what you are doing. All while not telling them that they are idiots and/or that they need to learn common sense or manners.

Customer: why won't you deliver to me?
Me: there's ice on the roads, a major accident, Nuclear fallout and you're out of our area
Customer: I need to speak to a manager
Me:*turns 360 degrees* I am the manager

by Why am I still at marcos? February 13, 2019

Assistant Stage Manager

Person who only answers to the stage manager and the director

Usually seen with the stage manager

Is more prepared than anyone at rehearsal

Usually doesn't know what they're doing

Is the adopted child of the stage manager

The assistant stage manager sat at rehearsal with the stage manager

by tired crew kid April 4, 2019

Management

Telling employees that they really are not understaffed by using "numbers" when we all know that numbers can tell whatever story you wish to tell, truth and fallacy. Directing you to the REAL definition of "Management" which Merriam Webster does not agree.

Management: We crunched the numbers and you really don't need that many staff--how can you disagree with the numbers? Just because we had 6 people before, had added .5, and now have just doesn't mean you need that many!

by DeceitNeverWins October 25, 2010

project management

The management of projects. Typically, this is all about figuring out what's needed, working out how to satisfy that need, costing it out, doing the job and delivering the product/service or whatever.

Some say it's science, some say an art. Whatever. It keeps a lot of pencil-necks in jobs and forms the bedrock of capitalist growth through cost, time and quality controlled efforts.

If you want an example of good project management, take 5 to figure out how they built a pyramid in ancient Egypt.

Getting a shag out of Estelle requires more project management than I can conjure up. You'd need a Harvard MBA to figure out a route into her box.

by Wizards Sleeve June 6, 2005

managering

When a manager specializes in being managerial instead of actually managing their people and fixing the issue at hand, similar to micromanaging, but done in such a way as to make themselves look like a great manager

Davey was managering us when all of the servers went down. He made sure that all actions and thoughts were his and that his people had no room to think.

by s0meguy April 24, 2017