the.com/desk jockey

means A person whose job keeps them anchored to an office desk all day, usually doing administrative, clerical, or computer-based work.

from Built on the '-jockey' pattern that originally meant someone who controls or operates something — a 'jockey' once meant a rider who skillfully handles a horse, and the sense broadened in the 20th century to anyone who 'rides herd' on a device or role, as in 'disc jockey' (controls records) or 'video jockey.' 'Desk jockey' saddles that same image onto office work, swapping a horse for an office chair — the joke being that steering a swivel chair through a stack of paperwork takes the same cocky, hands-on flair as riding a racehorse, just with far less wind in your hair.