desk jockeys
Cubicle-bound employees
Desk jockeys are office workers, especially those whose jobs involve sitting at a desk all day.
The term carries a mildly dismissive tone, suggesting sedentary work as opposed to physical labor or fieldwork: The desk jockeys in accounting have no idea what happens on the factory floor.
Compare with disc jockey, from which the -jockey pattern derives.
- clerksAdministrative office employees
- swivel chairSeat that rotates freely
- sedentaryCharacterized by much sitting
- nine-to-fiveRegular office schedule
- clock watchingFixating on time passing
office drone · office worker · computers · white-collar workers · administrators · cubicle · middle management · corner office · red tape · job · pencil pushers · positions · professions · employees · occupations · routines · bureaucracy · office politics
- office workersreceptionist, office workers, office clerk, accountant, administrator
- military brassgenerals, admirals, colonels, majors, captains
desk jockeysfield workers
Agricultural labor force
road warriors · field hands · beat cops · traveling salesmen · roughnecks
desk jockeysmanual laborers
Workers using physical effort
blue-collar workers · hard hats · roughnecks · ditch diggers · construction workers
desk jockeystradespeople
Skilled manual workers
craftsmen · mechanics · technicians · machinists · welders