A colloquial term used in corporate settings to describe an individual who takes excessive pleasure in establishing and enforcing overly strict rules for the office. For instance, requiring prior approval to participate in company-sanctioned recreation (e.g., ping pong). Related to: corporate cunt.
Corporate Kermit, during a conference call: Excuse me, Salt Lake office? Please put yourself on mute, I can't hear myself talk over your collective breathing. Thanks.
by JonJacobJingleHeimerSchmidt July 22, 2019
Get the Corporate Kermitmug. by theropingeffect August 14, 2016
Get the Corporate strikemug. A corporation humanizing itself, usually through social media such as Twitter, to make you think that the corporation is your friend, or at least a person, as opposed to a business built for profit.
all of these brand twitter accounts that have been posting random shit are just examples of how normalized corporate humanization has become in today's world.
by jai_ June 1, 2023
Get the Corporate humanizationmug. A sunset as viewed out of the windows of an office building before an inevitable late night, but seen through the reflection of the windows of the identical office building across the parking lot from your own.
"Somehow, seeing the corporate sunset tonight isn't making the four extra hours of work ahead of me worth it."
by fishy-fishy December 12, 2019
Get the Corporate Sunsetmug. In this context, the term “cowboy” has been given a negative connotation. In this sense, "cowboy" refers to those people who shoot around with empty word shells (hollow words or also buzzwords), especially in meetings with word salvos, in order to generate an impression among team members and supervisors to look as competent and intelligent as possible by using a lot of “intelligent or technical” words. This is also referred to as “bullshit-bingo” and causes a lot of hot air and dust but with a “peng-peng-wow-effect”, meaning, firstly, people are highly impressed and intimidated. But over time, team members and supervisors understand that it is just hot air and are in fact annoyed by the cowboy’s apperiance and “wana-be, joke cracking” leadership behaviour.
Their behavior is driven purely by opportunistic and egoistic nature and solely serves to present themselves strategically best in the company or in the team. Supervisors are slimed by the application of cowboyism, whereby people on the same level are run over by renewed word salvos and “peng-peng” gestures, knocked off and/or made mouth-dead.
The basic prerequisite for corporate cowboys is the lack of leadership qualities and incompetence of superiors or the deliberate promotion by other cowboys, who in turn satisfy each other's egoistic spirit in their own cowboy group to the point of neurological orgasm with their fictitious intelligence and pomposity. One calls it also "man round".
Their behavior is driven purely by opportunistic and egoistic nature and solely serves to present themselves strategically best in the company or in the team. Supervisors are slimed by the application of cowboyism, whereby people on the same level are run over by renewed word salvos and “peng-peng” gestures, knocked off and/or made mouth-dead.
The basic prerequisite for corporate cowboys is the lack of leadership qualities and incompetence of superiors or the deliberate promotion by other cowboys, who in turn satisfy each other's egoistic spirit in their own cowboy group to the point of neurological orgasm with their fictitious intelligence and pomposity. One calls it also "man round".
This dude is such a bullshit-bingo guy . He is a corporate cowboy......
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Did you listen to Steve? He was just ..peng peng peng peng peng peng...all the time.
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Did you listen to Steve? He was just ..peng peng peng peng peng peng...all the time.
by Azem14 November 22, 2021
Get the Corporate Cowboymug. An individual employee at a Fortune 500 company that exceeds the bar within their respective role all while being the baddest bitch in AND outside the office 💅🏾
Dashawn works for a big tech company and is always on his grind. Accolades on accolades left to right! I see him on IG traveling, shaking ass. Ugh such a Corporate Baddie!
by NYC Truth July 28, 2023
Get the Corporate Baddiemug. A company with a locked-in group of manager(s) who are so terrible to work with that they drive all professional talent away, and new applicants drop off.
by iaminhellhelpme June 26, 2024
Get the Scarecrow Corporationmug.