career-limiting move
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[edit]career-limiting move (plural career-limiting moves)
- (euphemistic, humorous) An act that is likely to result in the actor's demotion or loss of employment.
- 1991 Oct 08: dan herrick, Re: IV&V as a tool for dealing with "mistakes" and uncertainty, sci.space, [1]
- However, such a career limiting move is only worth while if it can be reasonably expected to succeed in changing the wrong-headed policy.
- 1995 Jan 11: Kay Hammer as cited in Neil Raden, Re: Data Warehousing, comp.databases, [2]
- Consequently, it can be a career-limiting move not to consider carefully all these issues during the design phase.
- 2006 Feb 28: Xocyll, Re: WoW teaches the wrong things, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, [4]
- Kind of a career limiting move to leave the game running where management might find it.
- 1991 Oct 08: dan herrick, Re: IV&V as a tool for dealing with "mistakes" and uncertainty, sci.space, [1]