Monday, May 18, 2009

Stress Canary


Stolen from JCG3


I have a new definition… I was surprised when wikipedia and even the urban dictionary didn’t have a definition for the term “stress canary”.

Stress Canary - noun

  1. the person on a team or project that feels the effects of stress well before anyone else
  2. a modern version of a canary in a coal mine, someone who reacts to stress as an early warning signal

1 comment:

Fishsticks said...

This term originated AFAIK at TogetherSoft regarding an easily stressed employee - credit to Tim S at TogetherSoft in the dot com days

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