pluto ploy
A run-around. An employee is lured into being a company man and unpaid manager, as well as doing unpleasant jobs, with the promise that at some point they will be able to do a particularly valued job. That point never comes.
Source: Disneyworld. The promise is "do this dirty job and you can be ... Pluto"
Source: Disneyworld. The promise is "do this dirty job and you can be ... Pluto"
"So I watched over the office while the Old Man was gone and told him everything everyone was doing - AND handled all his mail - and he still took Janet to the expo thing at Vale, and I'm working month-end accounts all weekend. Total Pluto Ploy."