Le Pouvier de la Guichetier -- A phrase usable in several settings that describes when someone in the company is stopping you in your tracks or attempting to waste your time on an assignment you view as unimportant. It translates from French as "The Power of the Clerk".
So you think you are some kind of important business person with lots of smarts, big contributions to provide and are growing in your position with the company. Then reality strikes when the determined paper shuffler in payroll or the crusty analyst that processes your expense reports stops all progress as their requirement is met.
Frequently a reaction to a long template sent by some lower level in the finance or legal or HR department that adds a burden to your workload right at a time when you are about to win that deal, or handle that customer issue or your usual daily job of saving the company.
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