When I was at CLO EUS they got some of these buttons. Not sure if they distributed them to the Org or if it was just for us to wear. I scooped up a few of them.
When I was at CLO EUS they got some of these buttons. Not sure if they distributed them to the Org or if it was just for us to wear. I scooped up a few of them.
Ah CLO EUS...
I remember having to sleep in a room that had sheets of water running down the entire width of a 30 foot wall from the defective plumbing on the SO berthing floors above...
Yuck, what a pit that was.
What's amazing is that we somehow were convinced that 'having other fish to fry' was an overt of some sort. I never word cleared the idiom until now
"What does "other fish to fry" mean?
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Priceless.
El Ron, the who of who's. He who had the most other fish to fry. His royal fryness who's doover, el ron pooper.
The term, in SO parlance, means being “dilatant” or “other determined”. IIRC, it was first used by El Ron in the early ‘80’s.
An Eval had just been done that found the “Why” for down stat Orgs in the US to be the fact that many of the ED’s were “moonlighting” to cover living expenses. El Ron scathingly said these Folks, the “Who’s” for the down stats, had “other fish to fry” and should be removed. From this Eval and El Ron “advices” a "Top Secret" Program, code named “Oscar”, was implemented to bring selected staff from the “Oscar” Orgs to Flag to ostensibly train them to help the ED with more competent Execs, and all the while clandestinely train them, brief them and then, in one fell swoop, replace overnight without Comm Ev or recourse all the “Oscar” Ed’s. Virtually all of the "Oscar ED's" were Flag trained OEC/FEBC's with a past history of Highest Ever Stats for their respective Orgs. Decades of experience was trashed and thrown under the bus when these proven, productive and high caliber Execs were removed.
The Eval, of course, was a Wrong Why and some very talented ED’s were cast aside resulting in many of the “Oscar Orgs” to crash even further when the new ED’s fell on their heads.
The result was that the Flag Bureaux was then targeted as the “Real Why” and “Actual Who’s”.
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The Eval, of course, was a Wrong Why and some very talented ED’s were cast aside resulting in many of the “Oscar Orgs” to crash even further when the new ED’s fell on their heads.
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Yep.
AFAIK, Some of these Orgs have never recovered and are smaller than their pre "Oscar" days 30 years ago. The Real Why was that the consolidation of power in the CMO Children of the Corn by El Ron, their incompetence and lack of experience and Hisself's incessant, compulsive need to issue streams of “Advices” to be immediately implemented with monotone importance was raking havoc in the Orgs.
The overall "Plan" for the "Oscar" Eval was to find the "corrupt and distracting influences in the Orgs" and “terminatedly handle” “Them”. There was a corresponding "Program" for the GO code named "Gertrude".
[Edit] I said "early '80's" in my previous post but, in retrospect as I think about it, it was Circa latter '78-early '79 when the "Eval was done and '79-'80 when the "Oscar" and "Gertrude" Programs were implemented.
[Edit] This Eval and the Programs were also the genus of WISE.
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