rankism n.— «What’s rankism, or rankist behavior? It is hiring an intern and ignoring her all summer. Or pointlessly yelling at the receptionist about a manager who is late. Or a professor’s taking credit for a graduate student’s research...
dignitarian n.— «What’s rankism, or rankist behavior? It is hiring an intern and ignoring her all summer. Or pointlessly yelling at the receptionist about a manager who is late. Or a professor’s taking credit for a graduate student’s...
dogs of the Dow n.pl.— «WI was thinking of the Dogs of the Dow, those high-yielding blue chips that gained notoriety nearly a decade ago.…The Dogs of the Dow system was invented a quarter-century ago by a money manager named Michael...
spray sheet n.— «You have data you get now as a manager or as a coach for infield players that tells you where guys hit it in certain counts. You know all their tendencies.…You have what’s called a “spray sheet.” We used...
bellagonna adj.— «We have talked to the bellagonna (which translates as non-Navajo) manager who says they’re still working towards a waiver to avoid changes.» —“Navajo culture is scorned by Hilton Hotels” by Shirley Rose...
swarming n.— «Larger projects are built by breaking projects down into small pieces and assigning each subsection to an agile team (the method is sometimes called “swarming” in agile circles), with the overall progress...