management
1. Corporate power elites distinguished primarily by their
distance from actual productive work and their chronic failure
to manage (see also {suit}). Spoken derisively, as in
"▫Management▫ decided that ...".
2. Mythically, a vast bureaucracy responsible for all the
world's minor irritations. Hackers' satirical public notices
are often signed "The Mgt"; this derives from the
"Illuminatus!" novels.
[{Jargon File}]
(1995-02-28)