A person who appears to know how all tasks should be accomplished but can't actually do any of those tasks themselves.

The institution of watching without working, usually accompanied with a significantly higher salary.

The guy wearing clean clothes who has very soft, smooth hands and a slick haircut and tells you to get the hell home before you get any overtime. The company's representative who is responsible for harassing, intimidating, disciplining and strong-arming employees in the name of better business practices. The cocky, overblown prick whose desk at work is stacked higher with grievance papers than his desk at home is piled high with overdue car and mortgage payments. That smarmy cocksucker in the VIP lounge at the club who orders bottles of top shelf vodka for the underage rich girls he picks up nightly at the strip joint. A man whose insecurities and self-doubts provide ample fuel for his currupt machinations in the workplace. The blue nosed white collared red cheeked scum-of-the-earth driveshaft of america's sputtering corporate engine. Collectively, managers are the scum that rises to the top of the pond in which we all must daily swim, and the company's ethics hotline is the vast barge that pushes this slime to shore to be beached and shriveled in the white-hot scorching sun of accountability.

Someone too incompetent to do any real work but who now has the authority to fuck up the work of those who aren't

Karen's alleged best friend

A secretary who can fire you.

The career goal of every employee too useless or lazy to do any REAL work

sits in the back room on myspace and facebook, smokes too much, talks on the phone, does little or nothing all day, then tells you what your doing is not being done well enough and gets paid twice as much as you to do it

A career for losers. Of course I'm talking about store, restaraunt, fast food, and possibly hotel managers. They're the types of people who sit in the back room, smoke cigarettes, and chat all while doing minimal to no work. They then act like their jobs are hard. They get paid to yell at everyone and treat people beneath their position like they're nothing. They also get paid double to triple what everyone else makes for acting like trailer trash basically. Some of them have college degrees while others just got to where they were by kissing up. They are some of the lowest lives on earth, and they are lower than those who they employed. There are some good people with those jobs, but for the most part they're losers. They think they are business men and women, but they are sorely mistaken. Keep in mind that while they don't live in poverty they are not rich either, and most of them have bugs up their asses because they'll be at those lame jobs their whole lives. People beneath their position with heads on their shoulders will end up with better careers than any manager in the long run. Serves them right.