Meaning of box checker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who follows instructions to the letter and avoids taking any risks.
   derogatory
2. A person who strives to live up to the expectations of others; a person who follows the rules and strives to achieve the conventional definition of success.
3. One whose job consists primarily of administrative work indicating tasks that have been completed.
4. Someone who is counted in an organization as representing a minority ethnic group but who is so assimilated into the dominant culture that their ethnic status becomes meaningless.
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see box, checker. Someone or something that checks boxes.

Examples

“Unfortunately, appearing to just be a box-checker is a very common occurrence in today's fire service, and this results in a number of candidates actually failing an event, particularly the emergency simulation exercise.”

“For the box checker, reorientation is seen as overreach. For the box checker, originality is seen not looking before leaping.”

“Jane had pegged her for a box-checker who didn't give a twit about what she was actually doing.”

“Box checkers are the people who almost seem as if they're checking the boxes as they're talking , doing things out of obligation or suggestion rather than because they truly care .”

“Sometimes we feel like we have to be the box-checkers of our lives. We make a list, and we don't stop until we check off every box. We strive for perfection.”

“I was a box checker, marching to the beat of effort/result, effort/result.”

“I have found that there are two categories of students who get ahead—those who I call the box checkers and those who learn quickly and well.”

“A "box checker” who put her head down and followed the rules, she worked hard in school and went on to graduate from Princeton University and Harvard Law School and land a coveted attorney position at a law firm paying rich six-figure salaries and extra bonuses.”

“Then the box checker would say, " Yep, has a Schedule B," and by the time somebody read it, they'd understand there was nothing in it.”

“We apply these methods because we need tools and there are management demands for status and progress reports, but the project manager is relegated to being a 'box checker' at best and a task master, similar to what I imagine were employed in the construction of the pyramids, at worst.”

“With the advent of project-management methodologies, the project manager's career path in some companies has morphed into a simple "box checker”. Completion of a checklist does not mean there has been effective project management or delivery of an acceptable product.”

“When one interviews for a management job, she or he needs to know if the organization is treating their particular posistion as a noun, that is, simply a position on the organization chart, a potential box-checker or form-filler.”

“Today a box checker may escape detection by claiming Hispanic origin at the outset of a hiring, contracting, or admissions process. Would-be box checkers realize that having a Spanish surname is not a necessary condition of being “Hispanic,” so they need not call attention to themselves by changing their name.”

“The seventy-plus so-called box checkers remained a mystery to the active students. They wondered, "Why would someone check a box on an admissions application but not participate in activities that are relevant to the community they are representing?"”

“She called Ottinger a "tool" of the business community and Lopez a "box checker,” apparently meaning that he was only nominally Latino and that he had acted in a way that was detrimental to the interests of Latinos.”

“We have a specific joke to talk about people, who are Latino that we know don't identify. We call them box checkers.”

“As I see it now, I was a sellout in high school. I was a box-checker. I was a coconut. Name the insult and I was the epitome of it.”

“Examples of the types of jobs the women worked at are fast food attendant or cook, box checker at a department store , housekeeper, dietary aide, beautician, bakery shop clerk, assembly line worker for a manufacturing company, child care aide, hot dog stand attendant, cashier, waitress, hostess, receptionist, go-go dancer, and secretary.”

“Well, there I was, at age thirty-two, an official box-checker. DIVORCED. Don't believe me? Look at the box.”

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