MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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How would you describe the role of a person who has provided unoffical help and advice to a colleague regarding management problems, decision making, that kind of thing? Helping someone see where the problems lie with his bosses and how to make a decision and assert himself, providing backup in meetings that kind of thing.
Wingman is the bes tI can come up with but it's hardly formal...?
mentor
mentor ?
corroborative
Something something guidance.
Maybe.
busybody
Busybody?
keep it simple, Advisor
mentor tw*t gloryhunter busybody unemployed bored- 1 may be appropriate for official paperwork
vainglorious?
Supportive colleague?
All Encompassing Workplace Guru
Collaborator?
Shuzbot.
Mellifluous.
(Merely because they sound good).
Fluffer
Dutch uncle, aide, attorney, authority, backseat driver, buttinski, clubhouse lawyer, coach, confidant, consultant, counsel, counselor, director, doctor, expert, friend, guide, helper, instructor, judge, kibitzer, lawyer, mentor, monitor, partner, priest, quarterback, referee, righthand person, second-guesser, teacher, tutor
coach/mentor/advisor/consultant
Stalwart?
Hold the Bells.
All Encompassing Workplace Guru
This I like. I'm an Aewg.
Lol @ backseat driver 🙂 I'm actually being instructed to backseat-drive by my management...
Groomer...? .. maybe not..
friend
Ego Loving Friend ELF
right hand man? or is that to cheesy
sounding board?
accountabilabuddy
Spirit guide.
you is a Guru, or a counselor
No one has suggested shit stirrer yet, I'll go with that one. 😉
or advice and management consultant ❓
Cinderella
Jizz mopper!
Well someone had to lower the tone 🙂
Wife.
That's worth at least 10 brownie points with Mrs Grips...
So what was the winner?
Expendable.
Redundant
Lol 🙂
As it happened I didn't have time to change the wording before the call, and "wing-man" was acceptable due to the use of quotes.
My manager likes management speak.