Verb
(US, idiomatic, informal) To become organized, current, or aware.
When the student was behind on his vocabulary, the teacher said, "get with the program!"
(US, idiomatic, informal) To work productively toward the objective of a shared enterprise, especially after the objective or the environment has changed.
Though natural gas prices dropped, the folks doing solar didn't get with the program.
(US, idiomatic, informal) To comply with the norms of a social group, especially a shared enterprise.
Dude, get with the program! We don't do casual Fridays any more.
The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism. Mitch McConnell
My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more. Sam Donaldson
You simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead and get with the program of a living world and the imagination. Terence McKenna