Definitions
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- noun A
manager who issubordinate to another manager.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The submanager continued without showing the least hint of surprise or acknowledging a long silence had passed.
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A decade of my life would be condensed into a couple of lines aimed at convincing some other submanager in some other office to lay claim to my remaining years.
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A decade of my life would be condensed into a couple of lines aimed at convincing some other submanager in some other office to lay claim to my remaining years.
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The computer had fallen asleep during my meeting with the submanager, but I bumped the mouse while moving the fountain and the monitor came to life with a ping.
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The computer had fallen asleep during my meeting with the submanager, but I bumped the mouse while moving the fountain and the monitor came to life with a ping.
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I knew I was about to be fired when the new submanager asked, “So what is it you do here, Mr Finch?”
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I nodded as the submanager pumped away at my hand, grinding my knuckles against one another like a fistful of marbles.
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My resumélooked almost as old as the new submanager, but if I updated it — whenI updated it, the way things seemed to be going — it wouldn't change very much.
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So for this new submanager to notice my name in his files, to ask himself what, exactly, I was being paid for out of his budget ... it was less of a shock to be fired than to hear someone speaking my name, or to hear my telephone ring when he called me into his office.
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Once he'd exhausted the tennis chat that I'm sure he'd planned out in advance, the submanager asked about my role at Second Nature and I knew where the conversation was headed.
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