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arse-covering (Airport security is a giant exercise in arse-covering – and it doesn't work (obviously). One of the most dominant myths in industry is that paperwork is an 'arse-covering' exercise. Alexander Demidov); arse covering (1. Protecting one’s position or job. 2. All-pervasive frame of mind in which the perpetrator can never admit that it was their fault; generating a massive email trail proving that everyone else is responsible, but not me; enormous dossier of evidence that verifies beyond a shred of doubt that the client is in the wrong, because I am perfect; sole activity of control freaks who don’t care what they work on, so long as they are always right. (see BCC; Call report; CC; Control freak; FYI): ... person or the government about the plastic issues that are being raised, they are immediately met with arse covering and vagueary (if that's a ...
There's a movement to now elevate not only the conversation, but the approach, and make measurement meaningful beyond arse covering.  bulldictionary.com Alexander Demidov) |
