Individuals who work in a corporate office where their primary workstation is a cubicle. They are tasked with making decisions that impact an entire corporation or organization. The decisions they make are often, if not always, terrible decisions that a significantly larger group of people who do the physical work in the field have to suffer through. For a group to be considered “Cube People” they must…
1. Be in charge of making decisions that others not working in a comfortable office must complete or comply with.
2. Have very little or no practical knowledge for what they are making decisions on.
Supervisor: Team, as you all know we had an incident last week where Larry tripped on his own shoelaces. Going forward an alarm will ring on the intercom every 15 minutes. When you hear the alarm, please stop what you are doing and check your shoelaces.
Employee: Who come up with this genius idea?
Supervisor: I got an email from corporate this morning mandating it.
Individuals who work in a corporate office where their primary workstation is a cubicle. They are tasked with making decisions that impact an entire corporation or organization. The decisions they make are often, if not always, terrible decisions that a significantly larger group of people who do the physical work in the field have to suffer through. For a group to be considered “Cube People” they must…
1. Be in charge of making decisions that others not working in a comfortable office must complete or comply with.
2. Have very little or no practical knowledge for what they are making decisions on.
Supervisor: Team, as you all know we had an incident last week where Larry tripped on his own shoelaces. Going forward an alarm will ring on the intercom every 15 minutes. When you hear the alarm, please stop what you are doing and check your shoelaces.
Employee: Who come up with this genius idea?
Supervisor: I got an email from corporate this morning mandating it.
A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.