Definition:
“Goodyear stripes” are the tire marks left over your body when you have been thrown under a bus by someone in a work setting.
Explanation:
For those that don’t already know, to be thrown under the bus is to be named and blamed for something in a public fashion in a work environment 1.
This leaves you with mental tire marks from the experience, “Goodyear stripes” is just one of the politest ways of saying you have been betrayed in this fashion.
Disclaimer: As always these posts are not aimed at anyone client or employer and are just my personal observations over a lifetime of dealing with both management and frontline associates.
- ,This does not necessarily have to be your fault. It merely means that the person doing it is using you to escape blame for something[↩]
