Team Player
(Team Player is an annoying business term and is just one of the 212 Most Annoying Business Phrases Managers Effuse, Confuse, and Overuse detailed in the hilarious must-have guide for every workplace: The 30,000-Pound Gorilla in the Room. Available right now on Amazon.)
Team Player
We’ll admit it; we like referring to a group of employees as a team. In so many ways and in so many workplaces, successful groups of employees act like well-coached teams.
However, we must draw the line at calling anyone a team player.
If they’re loyal, call them loyal. If they’re dedicated, call them dedicated. If they’re willing to help you cover up malfeasance, they’re not a team player, they’re an accessory to a crime.
Of course, most often when your annoying manager refers to someone as a team player, they’re indicating the person is loyal and/or dedicated. Your boss utters the overused and irritating phrase team player because he or she is of the fauxtivational type who sprinkles in sports analogies, sayings, and metaphors with excruciating frequency.
Barely a sentence leaves their mouth that doesn’t include such cringe-worthy gems as play ball, game time, move the goal posts, and of course, team player.
While all managers want employees to be loyal and dedicated, annoying managers don’t understand employee loyalty and dedication are tested with every irritating cliché they utter.
Replacement phrases: Loyal; Dedicated
See also: Play Ball; There is No “I” in Team
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Gregory
May 21, 2024 @ 9:26 AM
I totally agree with your statements, employers use this ever so often to manipulate employees that Team work pays off , we are aware of the advantages which is advertised but what about the disadvantages that are not placarded . When actually you have a teams of indifference persons , some with higher intellectual abilities over other and they expect you after all your expenses towards your educational qualifications to teach others for Team work sake (Free). This eliminates employers from the responsibility of paying to educate their employees all in a day’s work for Team Work and their bottom line .You will have no room for elevation in any workplace where this industrial phrase is practiced. It’s so unjust to individual’s who get caught up in this Paradox.
Yes : THERE IS DEFINITELY NO ( I ) in TEAM WORK :
How come there care so many Entrepreneurs globally that started their empires without Team Work , these corporations are still functioning without the Paradox of TEAM WORK ! but it’s being implemented to assist the masses for their inability to move forward solely.