(noun) An often derogatory term associated with a workplace philosophy where raw productivity is considered paramount.
In a "Widget Factory" workplace, metrics are everything and ideas are nothing. A "great employee" would be someone who produces the most widgets per hour. This mindset is closely tied to Taylorism; a production-oriented work philosophy from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
In a "Widget Factory" workplace, metrics are everything and ideas are nothing. A "great employee" would be someone who produces the most widgets per hour. This mindset is closely tied to Taylorism; a production-oriented work philosophy from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Dave, your workplace isn't a widget factory--if you don't know how to charm your boss and get noticed, working your tail end off won't get you ahead.
by TexasBard June 28, 2017
A person who needs to go on a fat diet so they can have some meat on their bones, and not look like a world vision ad
I need to go on a fat diet so I can stop being such a skinny widget.
Why does everybody think Cameron Diaz is so hot? She looks like a skinny widget to me.
Why does everybody think Cameron Diaz is so hot? She looks like a skinny widget to me.
by Emma November 11, 2003
In print journalism, i.e. newspapers, magazines, news sites -- any small, short or insconsequential item, often used as a filler, or in a column of similar short news items such as crime briefs.
by Tom Bell June 21, 2005
When you're playing a FPS game i.e. Battlefield 3, and a baddie throws a grenade which lands at your feet - there's nothing you can do but say 'Ah crap' and die.
Nick: How did you die? I was going to spawn on you.
Me: Ah man, I got sticky widgeted, nothing I could do.
Nick: That's how the cookie crumbles.
Me: Ah man, I got sticky widgeted, nothing I could do.
Nick: That's how the cookie crumbles.
by Slintank May 28, 2012
(stik-EE widge-ET, likely American)
Contradiction or intellectual impasse. A corruption of the phrase sticky wicket, describing a tricky situation in the game of cricket. The substitution of widget for wicket suggests a substitution of a more familiar word given most Americans' ignorance of the game.
see also sticking point, widget.
Contradiction or intellectual impasse. A corruption of the phrase sticky wicket, describing a tricky situation in the game of cricket. The substitution of widget for wicket suggests a substitution of a more familiar word given most Americans' ignorance of the game.
see also sticking point, widget.
Dick: "I wonder which holds greater cosmic import -- the ontology of giraffes or Polynesian linguistics."
Jane: "What a sticky widget. Let's go get some Burger King."
Jane: "What a sticky widget. Let's go get some Burger King."
by ignor July 5, 2005
when you put your iPhone up your girlfriend's butt so that she can manipulate the widgets with her anus.
by in4m8ion August 21, 2008
guy #1: what the widget? how did that shotgun go off? I could have sworn the saftey was on...
guy #2: ...........
guy #1: you need an ambulence? oh and where'd your face go?
guy #2: ...........
guy #1: you need an ambulence? oh and where'd your face go?
by maxzilla January 8, 2004