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CLM: Career Limiting Move 

Saying or doing something at work to a superior that will likely result in the termination of your employment.
Coco hung pictures of her superior Adam around her desktop and dressed the images with different headwear. -Example of CLM: Career Limiting Move at Uber

CLM: Career Limiting Move 

Career Limiting Move - Saying something at work to a superior that will likely result in the termination of your employment
Shannon told her boss' boss that she was bad at math, in a public forum - This is a CLM: Career Limiting Move

CLM (Career Limiting Move) 

An action that won't necessarily get you "fired", but will create a self-imposed cap on your future. An unforced error that leads to the demise of your potential. Similar to black-listing; this is the move that causes you to get silently blacklisted. You're not necessarily gonna get fired, but, you're going to be wondering later on "why do I keep getting passed over for that promotion"? That CLM you made- that's why.
CLM (Career Limiting Move)

Oof, Tom getting hammered and belligerently trash-talking management, puking into garbage can at the company party... real CLM move. His co-workers like him, but management has no respect for him, and have privately said they would never work with him after the incident.
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John, you work at a profit-taking hedge fund. You going well out of your way to make your socialist stance crystal clear to management... you're never going to get promoted to manager. CLM. Don't do it, please. Find another way.
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