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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
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Operational incident

Operational incident is used by Melbourne Metro trains to describe an incident in which a train driver severely injured his penis in an accident allegedly involving a toilet seat at East Pakenham station
Trains are delayed by 30 minutes or more due to an operational incident.
by PoltroonArchitect March 18, 2025
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operation torch

In WW2, Operation Torch was in the Autumn on 1942 when the Allies landed on occupied French colonies in North Africa and advancing rapidly until they met the Tunisian and Libyan holdouts of the Axis, it took them a couple of weeks to overrun the German and Italian defenses and the remaining troops failed to evacuate, leading to the surrender of the African campaign
Operation Torch along with Operation Uranus was the turning point of WW2
by AliTheAce August 3, 2023
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Crane Operator

The process of a man wearing a strap on and having intercourse with another person. Meanwhile the person strokes the strap on male's penis. When the male is about to cum, the person will the proceed to grab the strap on male's testicles to release the crane and deliver your prize.
Lets pretend were at the arcade tonight. We can play crane operator and see if you can win any prizes.
by CodeNameGoldMember September 30, 2021
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Operator McBurger

A person who voted for Joe Biden. The biggest fan of LGBQ community. Member of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Hillary Clinton supporter. Loves Nancy Pelosi. Has a crush on Carrol Baskins. Without makeup he looks like Ellen Degeneres. Has a tiny pee pee.
Everyone needs an Operator McBurger in their group.
by Rhino 69 July 2, 2022
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Joe Biden's EXACT WORDS!
Hym "I don't know how you guys didn't find and clip that immediately! Your excuse likely ✌️✊️✌️social cohesion✌️✊️✌️ or something. I mean, you make things so much harder than the have to be. Watch this, here's this: 'Why do people think the election was stolen?' And then the other guy shows the clip of Biden saying 'We have created the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud operation in the history of the presidency' and then people are like 'But there isn't any evidence' and it's like 'what evidence would there be?' And all of this is irrelevant because I TOLD YOU not to shut down the country. I said it explicitly! I told you not to do it AND what would happen. You didn't listen. Now look at everything. Terrible. Bad job."
by Hym Iam February 12, 2024
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useless as a call-centre operative

Usually someone utterly, totally useless, but can be applied to inanimate objects. Lacking any empowerment, thus going so far as to be inactively obstructive.
Etymology: in the UK a number of large companies operate call-centres. When one attempts to call these to complain, the usual response from the responder (the call-centre operative) is feigned interest in the issue, involving lengthy explanations, then the final response is that they cannot authorise the issue in question as due to lack of authority. The issues can be of any magnitude. When asked to be passed to a manager, they claim the manager is unavailable and will call back (this is the inactive-obstructive part). This never occurs, so one calls again. The situation recurses.
c.f. "chocolate teapot"
I attempted to wipe my arse with some own-brand toilet paper, after wiping the paper looked clean but the disgusting skiddies in my kecks later showed it was as useless as a call-centre operative.
by monsieur_tm December 30, 2013
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