Define: "On the tools" in Business
Minimal fiscal damage
"Always claim you are 'on the tools' when you want to avoid a meeting. Nobody wants to interrupt the person who is supposedly preventing an outage."
Direct, hands-on involvement in technical work or configuration tasks.
What does "On the tools" actually mean?
"The phrase used to differentiate the grunts actively configuring the hardware from the architects who just draw abstract clouds on whiteboards."
"We need a team lead who still spends some time on the tools to understand the day-to-day operations."
"I can't join the two-hour strategy sync; I am currently on the tools trying to figure out why the entire London office is offline."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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