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“‘Controlled chaos. AKA, ‘Even though I’m the manager, everything’s a big problem, and it’s not my job to tell people how to do their job, which then makes it everyone else’s problem.'”
“Literally, assistant managers calling minor, everyday workplace situations ‘controlled chaos’ doesn’t make a basic situation controlled or chaotic; it’s taking a small matter and blowing it out of proportion, failing to manage employees by not controlling them, and letting employees do anything except their jobs, thus creating the inability to avoid said ‘chaos’ when anything isn’t how the assistant manager expects.
Every time I hear someone say ‘controlled chaos’ now to describe a situation, it makes me think I’m hearing, ‘Hold on, I have an excuse for this.'”
—itoldthemisaid
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/meganeliscomb/touch-base-sync-up-and-more-buzzwords-and-phrases-that
