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Corporate Cowboy 

Noun: an individual who works for money for the sake of money. Takes care of business for business' sake. Renegade working inside corporate ranks, fucking up all kinds of bottlenecks and complacency. Rocks the boat and follows the money. Takes "In God We Trust" to literally mean our, the royal "We", trust held in fiat currency. Will break rules AND take credit for it. Not afraid to catch flak. Cutthoat. Guilty by association.
Example 1
Person 1: Hey did you hear redacted got called to the 11th floor?
Person 2: Technically, redacted can't be called anywhere. They're an 1099- Independent Contractor.
Person 1: Fucking Corporate Cowboy. Probably stays cutting checks.
Person 2: Probably stays breaking necks. "Earn your keep, if you know what I mean..." haha

Example 2
Person A: Since when is a work day 8-5? WTF happened to 9-5?
Person B: "Right-to-Work", bud.
Person A: WTF is "Right-to-Work?" What happened to "Fire-at-Will?"
Person B: You need approval to fuck with Rules of Engagement. Corporate War and all. Can't just lick potshots all willy-nilly.
Person A: Fucking ay, man. Corporate Cowboys don't have to deal with Chains of Command. Are they hiring?
Person B: They don't hire. They only fire. Hahaha
Person A: Haha lit
Corporate Cowboy by el socio October 10, 2018
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Corporate Cowboy 

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".
This dude is such a bullshit-bingo guy . He is a corporate cowboy......
or
Did you listen to Steve? He was just ..peng peng peng peng peng peng...all the time.
Corporate Cowboy by Azem14 November 22, 2021

Corporate Cowboys 

Individuals who work for money for the sake of money. Take care of business for business' sake. Renegades within corporate ranks, fucking up all kinds of bottlenecks and complacency. Rocks the boat and follows the money. Takes "In God We Trust" to literally mean our, the royal "We", trust held in fiat currency. Will break rules AND take credit for it. Not afraid to catch flak. Cutthoat. Guilty by association. Wet you up from the neck up. Originated in the US of A. Pioneered in the Wild West. There is no final frontier...
Example

Person 1: License and registration, please.
Person 2: *hands them papers*
Person 1: Do you know why I pulled you over?
Person 2: Just doing your job?
Person 3: *chuckles*
Person 1: You being smart with me?
Person 2: You pulled ME over.
Person 3: *chuckles*
Person 1: Okay, I see the registered owner's name and the name on your ID do not match. Care to explain?
Person 2: This... is a company car-
Person 3: Would you like a business card. We're Corporate Cowboys tonight.
Person 1: Oh...Uhhh, no. That won't be necessary. I'm aware of who y'all are... Just doing your job, too, huh?
Person 3: We can't disclose that information.
Person 1: So the owner of this is uhh..?
Person 2: We can't disclose that information.
Person 3: *chuckles*
Person 2: Well, let's wrap this up-
Person 1: W-would you like my name and badge number? My sergeant doesn't have to hear about this...
Person 2: Easy, Officer... We're on the same side here. Technically, we're all Corporate.
Person 3: Yeah, you are the "loss prevention" to our "collections". We never cross, because we never fuck up.
Person 1: So am I being detained?
Person 2: ...
Person 3: ...redacted? Do we take their name and badge?
Person 1: Please?
Person 2: Have a quiet night, Officer. Drive safe.
Corporate Cowboys by el socio October 12, 2018

Corporate Cowboyz

Like Cocaine Cowboyz, but not situated in the narcotics game.

Corporate all day, baby. Money is the drug, and if you're sitting on it, then you ain't moving; and if you ain't moving, you're getting mopped up. No more stoops. No more corners. Just marble floors and three piece suits. Corporate Trappers at their finest. Corporate Cowboyz are really just corner office hitters. Boardroom Sharks. Payroll Mercs. Such is life. Apex Regulators. Their peak. The epitome of graduating. Leveling up. Don't even have a name, just a reputation. Manager? Fuck a manager. Corporate Cowboyz make lateral moves. "Make a few mil here, a few mil there" - Antonio Montana To them business is not a board game. Business is war. And you don't "win" war, by hoarding trillions. You spread it around along with your legend, if not your legacy will be shit.

Make a thousand, handle a million. Damn it feels good to be a Corporate Cowboy...
Example 1
Person 1: You heard redacted, the department head, got fired over the weekend? Sheesh management is cold for that one.
Person 2: Then you must've not heard he got got by some Corporate Cowboyz. Pay house calls like fucking doctahs, these fucking killas.
Person 1: Fucking ay, that's one way to go. Whole fucking bloodline gone and you be the one to blame for it.
Person 2: I'm telling you, mang. That bitch had it coming. Management is saying the position is open now, starting salary is redacted.
Person 1: Haha for redacted, they better bulletproof the company whip. I'm not getting smoked on the way to drop off my kids at practice, because the higher ups need a fall guy.
Person 2: HAH Corporate Cowboyz don't give a fuck. They'll drop your kids, too.
Corporate Cowboyz by el socio October 12, 2018
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