Management By Green Dot

When someone manages a work-from-home employee by checking that their status in a chat application like Slack, Microsoft Teams, etc., hasn't shifted from a green dot signifying "Present/Available" to an orange, yellow, or red dot signifying "Away", rather than by measuring things like quality and quantity of work output, whether deliverables are met in a timely fashion, customer satisfaction, etc.

With the explosion in employees working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020+, many managers who had been accustomed to prowling cube farms and looking over their employees' shoulders to make sure they were working, resorted to this technique.

"My manager totally does management by green dot. I got yelled at for being 'Away' on Slack yesterday morning because I had to spend half an hour on the phone with my kid's school. I'm going to have to get one of those mouse jigglers."

by ImTiredandINeedaNap October 9, 2021

Manager

If your manager is bloods and crips then you’ll be treated as one.

Slappyzee

For ex: SnooP Lion manager a crip gang member.

I need to know if metaphorically

“Did you kill tookie” if I could get you to agree at your half decent.

To me you killed tookie too

by Rico Martian January 21, 2022

Manager

\<\\<\<Your manager \\<>\\

If you’re clandestine and black then you’re basically Prince Hall

Your manager _~\>|€

you’re Prince still too me.

You’re not clandestine.

by Rico Martian January 21, 2022

(Manager) ate it

Phrase used when something important can't be found because that one manager who always sticks things in random places was the last one to use it.

"Where's the box cutter?"
"(Manager) ate it"

by Portalmaker April 11, 2022

Manager

A wild Karen will normally prey on a Manager and proceed to scold them to get what they want from them.

The wild Karen was hunting for a Manager to scold.

by 123justjoshinyabro April 6, 2023

Manager Splainin'

When a manager explains to an employee or to a tenant why things are the way they are at their job or where they live.

I thanked the manager of the apartment complex I live in for manager splainin' to my why my new lease begins on the 28th of November instead of December 1st.

by anonymous October 3, 2023

manager repellent

When an employee for a company has such a bad attitude even the managers don't like to be around them. It most cases, it's easier to just avoid them then to fire them.

Angie: Hey Becca, why did all the managers just walk away like that?
Becca: Because Brian just walked in, he's manager repellent.

by denchr6 May 24, 2024