Here's how the flyer dumping works: A retail store (pharmacy, grocery chain, pizza- or sushi-delivery restaurant) wants to increase sales or introduce a new opening, so they print cheap flyers/brochures and hire young people who will work for below minimum wage to distribute them.
Harold is bored silly with his job as an investment banker whose loutish post-preppie superiors dump work on him so they can go out and play.
So, they dump work on each other.
(That's a nice way of saying he dumped work he didn't want to do on me).
After the Dream's bootloader was dumped, work began on modifying it so that it could install third-party firmware, and on converting official Android update files into a format that could be installed using the modified bootloader.
The cross-cutting is almost... an excuse, if you like, to dump work that's too difficult, or you don't have the funding, on somebody else, do you know what I mean?
Flaky people often don't dump work on others outright.
Your attorney boyfriend/girlfriend doesn't dump work the minute you snap your fingers so don't be expected to do the same every time he/she has a free minute.
Peter Wehner, the Romney speechwriter whose convention draft mentioning Afghanistan was dumped, worked in Karl Rove's Office of Strategic Initiatives before and after the CPA era.
It might be a customer making unreasonable demands, your colleague expecting emails to be answered at midnight or your boss continually dumping urgent work on your desk just as you are heading for the exit.
