career-limiting move

• career limiting move

career-limiting move (plural career-limiting moves)

1. (euphemistic, humorous) An act that is likely to result in the actor's demotion or loss of employment.
   • 1991 Oct 08: dan herrick, Re: IV&V as a tool for dealing with "mistakes" and uncertainty, sci.space, [1]

     However, such a career limiting move is only worth while if it can be reasonably expected to succeed in changing the wrong-headed policy.

   • 1995 Jan 11: Kay Hammer as cited in Neil Raden, Re: Data Warehousing, comp.databases, [2]

     Consequently, it can be a career-limiting move not to consider carefully all these issues during the design phase.

   • 1999 August 2, Obnoxio The Clown, “Re: "Create Database" Security Hole?”, in comp.databases.informix‎^[3] (Usenet):

     ... you would make it clear to any luser that did have access that filling up your root dbspace is a career limiting move? :-)

   • 2006 Feb 28: Xocyll, Re: WoW teaches the wrong things, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, [4]

     Kind of a career limiting move to leave the game running where management might find it.