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Article #33Re: Linux Expo 2000 (http://www.itevents.co.uk/exhibitions/linux/LinuxRegistration.htm)
From: Alistair Mann
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 00:00
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 00:00
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Sam Wilson <Sam.Wilson@ed.ac.uk> wrote in message news:Sam.Wilson-3005001015060001@wormhole.ucs.ed.ac.uk... > In article <959637189.8858.4.nnrp-08.9e9834d2@news.demon.co.uk>, "Alistair > Mann" <vianews@lgeezer.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > >[PFY deletes important data] The truth? Employee X > >was responsible, and being on new employee probation would have got the > >sack. The lie? I might have suggested it had something to do with the > >electrical storm at the time. Tact saved his job, and he has gone on to be a > >most excellent PFY. > > I guess I'm privileged and naοΏ½ve, but I wouldn't like to work in a > situation where I couldn't explain that kind of thing to my bosses and > expect a sympathetic hearing. I've seen setups like that and it's not > pleasant for the people involved. I suppose it depends on the competence of the boss. Mine was a complete incompetent and I simply wouldn't trust him to give a sympthetic hearing to something he simply doesn't understand. OTOH, he was most proficient at earning the company money, and therefore paying my salary. It also beats being second-guessed all my decisions! -- Alistair Mann visit the uk.local.london website at http://www.london-online.org.uk
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