Supervisor typically is a General Foreman, Project Manager or company owner who is constantly sticking his head into every part of an installation and pushing the workers to stay on task and hurry up and finish.
Steve is always coming to the jobsite and birdogging the guys. He needs to back off and let them work. They’ve never left a job unfinished yet.
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)