Manager insisting on calling any skill a 'secret sauce'
- ChrisF
- 1 hour ago
- 1 min read
A middle manager is annoyingly and slightly weirdly insisting on calling even the most basic competence amongst his team their 'secret sauce', it has been confirmed.
The news comes even though the man has never been a chef and has no known experience in the restaurant industry.
Mike McBride, 47, regional manager at marketing agency All Leads Lead to Leeds, keeps using the term after hearing it on a business leadership podcast.
'Well done guys on the presentation pitch today, especially Ian for those top-drawer PowerPoint animations- that's definitely your secret sauce' said McBride in a team meeting.
'Now, who is down to produce the next quarterly budget figures? Sophie, can I leave the forecasting to you - it's definitely your secret sauce', continued McBride.
'Just one more thing on the agenda - organising the next team night out', continued McBride. 'Adele, you smashed it booking our last evening out playing darts at Flights of Fancy. I think events management is kinda becoming your secret sauce'.
'Can I just throw in one humble suggestion of that new tapas bar down the road?', continued McBride.
'The chef there cooks these amazing dishes and he finishes them off with these semi-liquid reductions and emulsions which enhance the flavour, texture and visual appeal of the food'.
'But here's the thing - no-one knows the ingredients he uses to make them. I don't know how to describe it - it's like his clandestine condiment or something.'