simile: a long, difficult, disgustingly messy and ultimately pointless job that no-one wants to do. (paraphrased from The Jargon File)

Analogous BIM activities include, but are not limited to:

• Numbering doors, windows, chairs, light switches or any object manually.
• Any form of manual annotation.
• Setting up 450 RLS [Room Layout Sheets] manually. Actually setting up more than ONE RLS manually is too much.
• Converting anything produced by a Rhino user into some form of usable data.
• Converting anything drawn by a self-proclaimed “Design Architect” into something that satisfies the brief & budget.
• Installing and configuring any licence management software.
• Explaining what Navisworks actually does to anyone.
• Explaining Autodesk’s new pricing structure to senior management.
• Connecting a MacOS system to a Windows 365 Domain.
• Cleaning three years worth of dust out of the office workstations.
• Removing the shite-ware that comes installed with any Windows laptop.

Examples in use:

Reviteer: “Hey BIM Manager, I’ve done this whole building in Rhino and I promised the client I would have a 3D Print for the Monday 9am meeting. I know it’s 5pm Friday but I have to go to a beach party in Fiji this weekend; can you do this for me? We’ll lose the job if there isn’t a model, by the way”
BIM Manager: “Yeah sure; I wasn’t doing anything important at all this weekend; I’d love to kick a dead whale down a beach for you.”

Project Architect: “And we’d like to number all of the bricks indvidually because the Project Manager said we need to do that”
BIM Manager: “Really? I’d rather have the QS [Quantity Surveyor] kick that dead whale down that beach.“