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career-limiting move en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (euphemistic, humorous) An act that is likely to result in the actor's demotion or loss of employment.
    • ... you would make it clear to any luser that did have access that filling up your root dbspace is a career limiting move? :-) 1999 August 2, Obnoxio The Clown, “Re: "Create Database" Security Hole?”, in comp.databases.informix (Usenet):
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.

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