lion food

( n.)

   [IBM] Middle management or HQ staff (or, by extension, administrative
   drones  in  general).  From an old joke about two lions who, escaping
   from  the  zoo,  split up to increase their chances but agree to meet
   after  2  months. When they finally meet, one is skinny and the other
   overweight.  The  thin  one  says: "How did you manage? I ate a human
   just once and they turned out a small army to chase me -- guns, nets,
   it  was  terrible.  Since  then  I've  been  reduced  to eating mice,
   insects,  even  grass." The fat one replies: "Well, I hid near an IBM
   office and ate a manager a day. And nobody even noticed!"

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