Looking for a word for the moment when an “expert” is belatedly revealed on a client’s staff with opinions about your job and how it’s done. There might need to be more than one word, because there are different kinds of “reveals”.
For example, when said “expert” expresses a very strong negative opinion about a decision that has been made and cannot be changed without significant delay or hardship, this can be seen as “marking one’s territory” and therefore called a **peeveal**.
Or, if you’ve been banging your head on a particular project requirement without coming to a solution, and the “expert” is revealed *and* supplies information leading to a solution that would have saved significant time and energy, it might be called a **nerd ex machina**.
Ideas?
Nomenclature Call
February 20th, 2008
How ’bout stinger (like a ringer, only they hurt ya)?