Meaning of career-limiting move | Babel Free

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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