Classic Workplace Moves: The Metaphor Guy

Yet another Classic Workplace Move is “the metaphor guy” who interjects metaphors into nearly every conversation that you have with them. They use such classics as…

• “It’s bigger than a breadbox”
• “Were are at the Gnats eyelash level of detail”
• “It’s like Herding cats” (not to be confused with hurting cats)
• “Get our ducks in a row”
• “Going from soup to nuts”
• “Like a bull in a china shop”
• “Putting lipstick on a pig”

To mix things up I think it would be fun to introduce metaphors that don’t make any sense just to see if people are following. For the most part, I suspect they will think that it is just something that they don’t understand and that I somehow know something that they don’t. Maybe I will add in some which sound like the ones above…

• “Bigger than a matchbox”
• “We should get to the level of detail of a horse’s acne”
• “Its like rounding up lemurs”
• “We need to get our geese into the lunch line”
• “It would be like going from a cow to jerky”
• “That would be like a pig in a nail salon”
• “Putting eye shadow on a lizard”

So I appeal to you, metaphor guy, to keep them coming and keep them relevant and interesting.