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".