Definition

A junior marketer whose primary job is creating endless PowerPoint presentations for meetings that may never happen. The modern equivalent of a Victorian-era scribe.

Example Usage

I spent three years as a deck monkey at the agency, reformatting slides for partners who never opened them.

Origin

Agency and corporate marketing culture, 2000s

Source: Advertising agency and corporate marketing slang

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