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(1). To futilely attempt to stop the inevitable collapse of a business, project or career.
“Mike, all of these personnel changes you’re making is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. No one buys our stuff anymore! I mean, who the hell needs a beeper in 2012!”
(1). A term used by upper management to politely tell an employee that they don’t give their clients enough face time, and how disappointed they are with them about it.
“Well Scott, you should consider going into the city and taking the client out to lunch. You know, you can’t fax a handshake! Seriously though, go take them out to lunch.”
(1). In HR, this is a term used to describe how to deal with change in the workplace. For example, if you place a frog in boiling water, it will jump out, if you place it in cold water and gradually heat it, it might stay. Pretty roundabout way to say “grow a pair and deal with it” but it’s ok, we’re into hand-holding, miss.
“Well Jon it sounds to me like you have a little bit of boiling frog syndrome. Here’s how I see things: you were once the manager of business development. Over the past year you gradually didn’t sell anything, and now you have become the manager of our telephone service, office supplies & bagel Friday’s. You have a great new desk right up in front of the office, and get to talk to everyone who comes through the door, whether it be new people coming in for interviews, food delivery folk or the FedEX guy. The way I see it, it’s a win win for everyone! That guy? Oh he’s here for the new business development manager position, can you send him to my office?”
