MANAGER: [to Luke]Hey. Saw you jawboning with our boy there.
Jawboning, informal American English meaning to influence or pressure by strong persuasion, usually used in a political context. Luke wasn’t really doing anything like that with Jess, so either the manager is being very protective of his star worker, or he is confusing the word with jawing, meaning “to talk, to scold”.
The Annotated Gilmore Girls 