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career limiting

A polite way of saying that an event or action may:

a) Cause an employee to experience a wealth of bad internal or external PR that could limit future promotion opportunities.

and/or:

b) Cause the employee to get fired.

This definition can also be used playfully amongst colleagues suggest how unfavourable a certain option may be or the relevant risk involved.
"I'll back up that computer before I run that update on Jim's computer, accidentally breaking the CEOs computer could be *potentially* career limiting."

"I agree, stalking that cute girl from HR might possibly be career limiting."
by Matthew1471 April 10, 2009
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Career crush

Having a crush-like feeling towards someone in your employed life. More than an admiration, but less than actual feelings.
Me: Ugh, I have such a career crush on my new boss.
Friend: Really? Why?
Me: She's just so awesomely smart and talented. I wish I was like her.
Friend: I feel ya.
by ttn13 September 1, 2013
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Capreice

You’ll never see it spelled like this anywhere. “if i were a guy, i’d be the best boyfriend ever” is a quote said by none other than the famous capreice awad.
damn CAPREICE is such a good wellington leader
by itsyafavgk June 18, 2019
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Career academy

Career Academy is also known as queer academy or fear academy because 36% of their students are a part of the lgbtqia+ community. hands-on 6-12 grade school, that requires uniform and proper attire. students school day ends at 3:55 basically 5 but some students don't get to leave till 6 A very diverse school with many great programs, rapist teacher(s), and teachers who give other students anxiety attacks but for the most part the teacher love what they do.
"Sorry I didn't have time to change my outfit I go to Career academy."

"look at those rich kids NICE UNIFORMS QUEER ACADEMY"
by genderqueer_bitch February 9, 2022
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career ender

a really stupid action typically at work/with coworkers or picked up by the press that cause you to lose your job and possibly career
Kramer's racist rant is a career ender.

Getting drunk and calling you boss a fag, also a career ender
by Paul S.W. November 20, 2006
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Tête carrée

1. A French-language slur used against Anglophones in Quebec. It means square head used particularly often against Anglophones who know little French. Commonly used in Eastern Montreal where individuals may be perceived as anti-French for two reasons:

a) It is often assumed that Anglophones are native Montrealers; use of English in this area may be perceived as having an anti-French connotation.

b) Because Francophones in Quebec must take English in school, it is assumed by some Francophones that Anglophones in other parts of Canada should be taking French, and that ignorance of French means a rejection of its importance by these people. It is not widely understood in Quebec that in some areas of Canada students may choose to study a local minority second language.

An Anglophone who tries to order food at a restaurant or ask for help in a shop using English or stumbling French may overhear the term used against them.

2. Used by Francophones against Anglophone bigots and by Francophone bigots against Anglophones. Francophone bigots tend to think that all English Canadians are a homogeneous mass of hateful French-bashers... Rather than a diverse group of people who are mostly quite enamoured with the beauty and culture of La Belle Province.

Because the term is a physical-stereotype, it can be seen as a "racializing slur."

3. The term can be seen as a counterpoint to the term "frog", which is mostly used by Anglophone bigots against Francophones.
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1: Tête carrée:
"Regarde-le donc à la caisse! Un autre tête carré!"
"Look at him at the checkout! Another square-head!"
(For example: This is something you can sometimes overhear at a McDonald's in Montreal-Est, when an Anglophone tries to order but has trouble with the the French names of the items on the menu).
by SuperMétis February 26, 2011
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Career Search

2006/n/Car-eer Sea-r-ch

A senior English research project (also known as a Senior Disseration or Senior Thesis) designed to drive the said Graduating class to the brink of insanity. The process of the Career Search revolves around the chosen career you are going into or are planning on going into once you graduate from your alma mater.

The process is very frustating and very confusing to an extent; it consists of an introduction, review of literature you find on your topic (usually five internet and print sources are required); a 'shadowing' experience (when you go off to a distant place, miss a day of important classtime, and possibly not even <i>find</i> anything on your topic), and an interviews section, along with a Works Cited (Bibliography) page. The researching portion for your Review of the Literature usually consists of a grueling six weeks (or two thirds of a nine-weeks) period, in which one will search desperately through several Department of Labor study books and useless webrings to try and find information on your career, only to come up empty handed.

Once your Research of literature and whatnot is completed, you move on to do your 'Shadowing' experience, and your interviews. Your 'Shadowing' consists of a seven-eight hour experience where you pick someone in your chosen profession and literally follow them around all day (hence the term Shadowing). You're meant to try and learn something from this experience, however, such is not always the case, especially when you're set up to shadow someone in your career that doesn't even want you following them around. Interviews are simply periods when you sit down with a person, call them on the phone, or e-mail them to ask them questions; four of these types of Human Sources are required for your paper, but typically you may end up drawing duds on some of them and end up with two or three.

All in all, the process takes up to twelve weeks of time, usually beginning in the second quarter of your first semester and wrapping up just in time for the pressure of your midterm examinations to swoop down upon you like a rabid beast and feast on your now dead, festering soul.
"Man, this research paper is from the Eigth Concentric Circle..."
"They don't call it a Career Search for nothin', man."

"This Career Sh*t is getting on my nerves..."

"The bibliography is due for our Career Search tomorrow!"
by Ishmael001 November 9, 2006
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