FLASHBACKS

unnecessary responses to an order, also called backflash. This can get fairly wicked. They are not acknowledgments, they are comments or refutals. Example: "Sell the bricks" as an order, is replied to by "Bricks are hard to sell" or "We should have sold them yesterday." This is a disease peculiar to only a few staff members. They cannot receive an order directly and are seeking to be part of the communication, not the recipient. —Staff Status II Glossary, Approved late Sept. 1990

unnecessary responses to an order, also called backflash. This can get fairly wicked. They are not acknowledgments, they are comments or refutals. Example "Sell the bricks" as an order, is replied to by "Bricks are hard to sell" or "We should have sold them yesterday." This is a disease peculiar to only a few staff members. They cannot receive an order directly and are seeking to be part of the communication, not the recipient.unnecessary responses to an order, also called backflash. This can get fairly wicked. They are not acknowledgments, they are comments or refutals. Example "Sell the bricks" as an order, is replied to by "Bricks are hard to sell" or "We should have sold them yesterday." This is a disease peculiar to only a few staff members. They cannot receive an order directly and are seeking to be part of the communication, not the recipient. @ An order to mimeo a flyer for one city caused 1 1/2 hours of flashbacks to an Assoc Sec.