Decorum needs to be raised.
Les
hlhowell at pacbell.net
Mon Jan 14 22:43:10 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 12:35 -0800, Dean S. Messing wrote:
> Thomas Cameron wrote:
> : On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 19:18 -0800, Leslie Satenstein wrote:
> : > I have been in IT for 40 years, and in that time I learned a lesson or
> : > two.
> :
> : <snip most excellent observations and advice>
> :
> : I don't actually buy into this, but it an interesting take on
> : communications with really bright people:
> :
> : http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/tact.html
> :
> : Again, I don't think there is any excuse for not at least starting out
> : being nice - I believe in the whole "do unto others as you'd have them
> : do unto you" thing. But it is an interesting point of view.
>
> Thanks for the "tact filter" link! I think the author his hit on a
> little piece of wisdom here.
>
> But he may have missed one type of person: the person who (for
> whatever reason) has no "tact filter" at all. Thus much of what he
> says is offensive to normal people (and he has no sense that it is)
> and much he hears from normal people (no matter how tactfully spoken)
> is offensive to him. I known a few people like this.
>
> Dean
>
I'm reading this too, you know ;-)
Les H
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