Salamitaktik

If you're overwhelmed at work and someone suggests you use the "Salamitaktik," many things may immediately spring to mind. Maybe your colleague is suggesting that you make your excuses and leave the hectic office to make an emergency dash to the butcher's. Or perhaps your colleague is advising a less extreme version of the "going postal" phenomenon, where you assault your demanding boss with a large sausage rather than an automatic weapon. In fact, your colleague would be suggesting that you use a time management strategy where you break up your mountainous task into small, bite-sized portions. The reducing of your massive workload into manageable pieces is therefore compared to the slicing of a large salami into smaller slices. If you still feel like hitting your boss with a large sausage after doing that, then that is your prerogative.