do an Alan

To convince everyone that your work is far more complex and time consuming than it really is and then get undesirable work dumped on coworkers.

I'm going to do an Alan so I can slack off.

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alanize

To publicly assign work to someone with no real authority to do so, particularly when it was obviously a task that person would've done anyway.

I just got alanized in an email to everyone by a coworker.

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