* A PROGRAM: Any assignment that can't be completed by one phone call. * EXPEDITE: To compound confusion with commotion. * CHANNELS: The trails left by inter-office memos. * COORDINATORS: The guy who has a desk between two expeditors. * TO ACTIVATE: To make more carbons and add more names to the mailing list. * TO IMPLEMENT A PROGRAM: Hire more people and expand the office * UNDER CONSIDERATION: We're trying to find it in the files. * RE-ORIENTATION: Getting used to work again. * RELIABLE SOURCE: The guy you just met. * INFORMED SOURCE: The guy who told the guy you just met. * UNIMPEACHABLE SOURCE: The guy that started the rumor in the first place. * WE ARE MAKING A SURVEY: We need more time to think up an answer. * TO NOTE AND INITIAL: To spread the responsibility for this. * LET'S DISCUSS THE MATTER: Come to my office, I'm lonely. * LET'S GET TOGETHER ON THE MATTER: I'm assuming you're as confused as I am. * WE WILL ADVISE YOU IN DUE COURSE: If we figure it out, we'll let you know. * IT IS IN PROGRESS: So wrapped up in red tape that the situation is almost hopeless. * GIVE US THE BENEFIT OF YOUR THINKING: We'll listen to what you have to say as long as it doesn't conflict with what we have decided to do. * A CONFERENCE: A place where conversation is substituted for the dreariness of labor and loneliest of thought so the members can get more per-meeting pay. WE WILL LOOK INTO IT: By the time the wheel makes a full turn, We will assume you will forget about it also. A CLARIFICATION: To fill in the background with so many details that the foreground goes underground. A MEETING: A mass mulling by master-minds where minutes are kept and hours are lost. TO NEGOTIATE: To seek a meeting of the minds without the knocking together of heads. CONSULTANT (or expert): Any ordinary guy more that 50 miles from home or office Cheers Jim, in Yellowknife, getting lighter, still cold ... I hate laundry month. ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 [NR] --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 * Origin: Try Our Web Based QWK: DOCSPLACE.ORG (1:123/140) SEEN-BY: 633/267 270 5030/786 @PATH: 123/140 500 106/2000 633/267
