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Skriven 2005-01-22 00:08:00 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
Ärende: Gov't jargon explained
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* 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.
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