To act in a way of harsh reality with action. The action is so swift, radically transparent and truthful that integrity and principle outweigh the priority of keeping a job. Euphemistically speaking, the act resembles the scene of an endless LP record while enjoying hops and barley with conjectured epiphanies that amaze the mind.
To Pull a Tabachneck is to solve an individual problem at work with resignation while understanding that one person can solve the world’s problems while creating an abstract image in one’s mind of what they always wanted to say to their manager, but were too chicken to MTFU and just do it!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)