True Meanings


A PROGRAM-Any assignment that can't be completed by one telephone call.

TO EXPEDITE-To compound and to confound chaos with commotion.

CHANNELS-the trail left by inter-office memos.

COORDINATOR-The guy who has a desk between two expeditors.

CONSULTANT-(or expert)-Any ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.

TO ACTIVATE-To make carbons and add more names to the memo.

TO IMPLEMENT A PROGRAM-To hire more people and expand the office.

UNDER CONSIDERATION-Never heard of it.

UNDER ACTIVE CONSIDERATION-We are looking in the files for it.

A MEETING-A mass mailing by master minds.

A CONFERENCE-A place where conversation is substituted for the dreariness of labor 
                                 and the loneliness of thought.

TO NEGOTIATE-To seek a meeting of minds without a knocking together of heads.

ORIENTATION-A Chinese clerk introduces you to the group. *

RE-ORIENTATION-Getting used to working again.

RELIABLE SOURCE-The guy you just met.

INFORMED SOURCE-The guy who started the rumor originally.

UNIMPEACHABLE SOURCE-The guy who started the rumor originally.

A CLARIFICATION-To fill the background with so many details that the 
                                     foreground goes underground.

WE ARE MAKING A STUDY-We need more time to think of an answer.

NOTE AND INITIAL-Let's spread the responsibility for this.

SEE ME, OR LET'S DISCUSS-Come down to my office, I'm bored.

GIVE US THE BENEFIT OF YOUR PRESENT THINKING-We'll listen to what
                               you say as long as it does not interfere with what we've 
                               decided to do.

COMMITEE-A group of the unfit appointed by the unwilling to perform 
                        the unnecessary

LET ME BE HONEST WITH YOU-If you believe what I'm about to tell you, you
                       will believe anything. **


Unfortunately, I do not know the author of the other "True Meanings".  

*I would add that I do not subscribe to the "True Meanings" -Orientation, as it could be considered by some as an example of a negative racial stereotyping.  3/8/93
And it is also my personal philosophy of life..  ;)  4/10/97

**This quote is my own..I added this to the original "True Meanings".