lion food

lion food

(humour)(IBM) Middle management or HQ staff, or, byextension, administrative drones in general. The term derivesfrom an old joke:

Two lions escape from the zoo and split up to increase theirchances. When they finally meet after two months, one isskinny and the other overweight. The thin one says, "How didyou manage? I ate a human just once and they turned out asmall army to chase me with guns and nets, it was terrible.Since then I've been reduced to eating mice, insects, evengrass." The fat one replies: "Well, *I* hid near an IBMoffice and ate a manager every day. Nobody even noticed!"