Someone who feels they musttreat an escalator as a staircase, bringing guilt to the rest of the parties on the escalator, unless they also do so.
Jane: "Why is that girl bounding up the escalator like it's a flight of stairs? She's making the rest of us look lazy for just standing here riding it!"
Jill: "She's a total escalator overachiever."
A co-worker that lures you in to thinking that mediocrity is commonplace at the office. Just when you think you are both on the same page he or she will make look bad by putting together elite spreadsheets, cutting edge PowerPoints, and insightful talking points at meetings.
John: Where is Lindsay? She normally takes a 2 hour lunch with us?
Jim: Oh you didn't know? Turns out she is a closet overachiever.
<i>over-achiever</i>
1: A person who is motivated by their ideals. An intra-competitive person often marked by abandoning that which hinders their ideals.
2: One who strives for various degrees of near perfection. see H.U.M.A.S.
3: Someone that desires more than is needed.
The over-achiever would not get married until she found the perfectfather for her future babies. She died alone in her early fifties.