Years ago, a former supervisor was frustrated with various issues in the office. He gathered all of the full-time staff and said, "All of you, raise your right hands, and repeat after me..." He then asked us to promise that we'd get the chaos in the office under control. His intention was undermined, however, when we all started saying our own paraphrased versions of what he'd just asked us to repeat, with none of us speaking in unison.
I suppose that proved his point about the chaos.
