pen pusher
a person with a boring office job
TRANSLATION
pen pusher = der Bürohengst, der Bürokrat --- GOOGLE INDEX pen pusher: approximately 400,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
pen pusher
noun phrase, slang
- a person who has an office job that is not interesting
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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The British-born American writer W.H. Auden once said, "A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them."
Auden was referring to the "pen pusher" (also pencil pusher), the origin of which traces back to the days before office automation when office workers spent their day filling out endless forms, writing memos or completing financial ledgers by hand. Office workers now perform much of the same work, just with "Word", "Excel" and "Outlook".
Although the pen pusher has now been transformed into the "keyboard tapper", the amount of paperwork generated hasn't necessarily decreased. A UK research found that the average employee uses 10,000 sheets of paper per year, and as many as 6,800 of those sheets are wasted. That's a lot of "treeware"…
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SYNONYMS
desk jockey, paper pusher
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Many people who work outdoors, could never imagine themselves as pen pushers."
noun phrase, slang
- a person who has an office job that is not interesting
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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The British-born American writer W.H. Auden once said, "A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them."
Auden was referring to the "pen pusher" (also pencil pusher), the origin of which traces back to the days before office automation when office workers spent their day filling out endless forms, writing memos or completing financial ledgers by hand. Office workers now perform much of the same work, just with "Word", "Excel" and "Outlook".
Although the pen pusher has now been transformed into the "keyboard tapper", the amount of paperwork generated hasn't necessarily decreased. A UK research found that the average employee uses 10,000 sheets of paper per year, and as many as 6,800 of those sheets are wasted. That's a lot of "treeware"…
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SYNONYMS
desk jockey, paper pusher
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Many people who work outdoors, could never imagine themselves as pen pushers."
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pen pusher
noun phrase, slang
- a person who has an office job that is not interesting
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
---
The British-born American writer W.H. Auden once said, "A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them."
Auden was referring to the "pen pusher" (also pencil pusher), the origin of which traces back to the days before office automation when office workers spent their day filling out endless forms, writing memos or completing financial ledgers by hand. Office workers now perform much of the same work, just with "Word", "Excel" and "Outlook".
Although the pen pusher has now been transformed into the "keyboard tapper", the amount of paperwork generated hasn't necessarily decreased. A UK research found that the average employee uses 10,000 sheets of paper per year, and as many as 6,800 of those sheets are wasted. That's a lot of "treeware"…
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SYNONYMS
desk jockey, paper pusher
---
SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Many people who work outdoors, could never imagine themselves as pen pushers."
noun phrase, slang
- a person who has an office job that is not interesting
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
---
The British-born American writer W.H. Auden once said, "A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them."
Auden was referring to the "pen pusher" (also pencil pusher), the origin of which traces back to the days before office automation when office workers spent their day filling out endless forms, writing memos or completing financial ledgers by hand. Office workers now perform much of the same work, just with "Word", "Excel" and "Outlook".
Although the pen pusher has now been transformed into the "keyboard tapper", the amount of paperwork generated hasn't necessarily decreased. A UK research found that the average employee uses 10,000 sheets of paper per year, and as many as 6,800 of those sheets are wasted. That's a lot of "treeware"…
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SYNONYMS
desk jockey, paper pusher
---
SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Many people who work outdoors, could never imagine themselves as pen pushers."
