career-limiting move

Definitions

An act that is likely to result in the actor's demotion or loss of employment.

euphemistic, humorous

Examples

“1991 Oct 08: dan herrick, Re: IV&V as a tool for dealing with "mistakes" and uncertainty, sci.space, http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space/msg/87a7ffb1d5a872df?dmode=source&hl=en 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, http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases/msg/7176488e9967cceb?dmode=source&hl=en Consequently, it can be a career-limiting move⟳ not to consider⟳ carefully all these issues during the design⟳ phase.”

“... you would make⟳ it clear to any luser that did have⟳ access that filling up your root dbspace is a career limiting move⟳? :-)”

“2006 Feb 28: Xocyll, Re: WoW teaches the wrong things, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg/msg/ef8d37ae7f01cbb3?dmode=source&hl=en Kind of a career limiting move⟳ to leave⟳ the game running where management might find⟳ it.”

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