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Define: "Bodge Job" in Business
Fiscal Threat Level
HIGH
Multi-headcount capital waste
CWO Pro-Tip
"Never document a bodge job with your own name. Blame it on the guy who quit last year."
What HR thinks it means:
A temporary or improvised solution to an operational challenge.
What does "Bodge Job" actually mean?
"A highly unstable configuration that will become a permanent load-bearing fixture of the network."
How HR uses it:
"The team implemented a bodge job to maintain service continuity."
How you actually use it:
"We did a bodge job on the BGP routing because we did not have the downtime window to fix it properly."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
Published: 2026-06-19
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