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.
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
Get the Management By Green Dotmug. 1. A popular scam that peaked in the mid-to-late 90s. The fundamental premise was that having a web page magically made money appear out of thin air.
2. A derisive term for a place of business.
2. A derisive term for a place of business.
1. I don't need to have a product to make money, I run a dot commerce business!
2. He says he was a CEO? Yeah, sure, of a dot commerce company.
2. He says he was a CEO? Yeah, sure, of a dot commerce company.
by GrouchySmurf July 10, 2003
Get the dot commercemug. A small poop stain left in one’s underwear, usually after a long day of wear or a near accident. Named after the mark a melted whopper candy might leave on clothing.
by JonBoy07 May 26, 2020
Get the whopper dotmug. When someone already wearing 2 types of glasses to help their bad eyes pulls out a magnifying glass to look at something. Like the character Juni in Spykids
Man my uncle was r looking at his computer so he put on his computer glasses over his regular glasses so he could read the words already at 200% on 4K 27” monitor. That was some Spykids dot gif kinda shit I swear
by anonymous December 22, 2022
Get the spykids dot gifmug. by sthprkrcksss January 9, 2009
Get the deet/do/dot/do/deet/domug. Dot: Candy/pencil - pen - ink (anything you can write with / will make a mark) mark.
Dot (2): disney animation character, known for being a dog.
Dot (3): alex's dumb chicken that wants to cuddle while simultaneously pecking his skin off a little by a little.
Dot (4): alex's dumb chicken, that used to be oreo, but then while being called oreo she started to peck alex in the legs
Dot (2): disney animation character, known for being a dog.
Dot (3): alex's dumb chicken that wants to cuddle while simultaneously pecking his skin off a little by a little.
Dot (4): alex's dumb chicken, that used to be oreo, but then while being called oreo she started to peck alex in the legs
by EyePhone May 12, 2018
Get the dotmug. To shoot the dots off his dice or her/their/x dice: A phrase to describe a crazy relative in a dialogue by Rita Mae Brown.
by StEvUgnIn December 30, 2023
Get the the dots off his dicemug.