Carpet Walker

A derogatory term used for office workers that work in a production or warehouse environment. This includes engineers, sales people and any sort of middle management who spend most of the day on the computer. They are typically detached from the production/shipping process, lack knowledge of the time needed to complete projects and are notorious for making promises to customers that they don't have to keep.

The term comes from the floor they spend most of their time on, usually being a carpeted office as apposed to the cold, hard concrete of the warehouse floor.

Freight: "The new sales guy keeps asking me to ship things out today"
Manager: "We've specifically told him 3-5 days for shipping"
Freight: "Yeah he's a carpet walker, always making promises he doesn't have to keep"
Manager: "He's going to get fired"

Carpet Walker by Life_indk June 16, 2021

carpet walkers 

"White collar" or middle manager workers, usually located in cube farms or front offices of manufacturing plants, so called because their work space is carpetted instead of bare concrete.

"The system always slows down when the carpet walkers come in around 8am."

carpet walkers by StBill May 25, 2012