A situation where tools are scattered, schedules are ruined, and no one knows what is going on. Workers use this term to describe a job site that has lost all management control or a piece of equipment that has been torn apart and left in pieces. It implies a severe lack of professionalism and planning.
Heard on the job
The night shift left the staging area in an absolute shamble, I can't even find the forklift.
Also heard as
- shambles