Re: Linux Expo 2000 (http://www.itevents.co.uk/exhibitions/linux/LinuxRegistration.htm)

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From: Richard Caley
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In article <959637189.8858.4.nnrp-08.9e9834d2@news.demon.co.uk>, Alistair Mann (am) writes:

>> Tact and lieing are not points on a scale, they are orthogonal.

am> I'd disagree. IME, tact /is/ at the end of the scale that includes lying by
am> omitting to reveal pertinent truth. 

No, if you don't get theinformation across that is not tact, it is
lieing or incompitence, depending on intentions.

Tact is getting the information across without upsetting people. 

am> An old example: one of my last company's linux servers stopped
am> working while I was at the pub (oopsie!). It turned out that my
am> PFY had decided he could upgrade the server's hard drive on his
am> own, having successfully managed to do so a number of times at
am> home. He did, and promptly deleted one of the major databases,
am> which not surprisingly gave the users the idea the server wasn't
am> working. The bigwigs were, of course, furious. So was I -- it took
am> the rest of that short afternoon to restore the database, and have
am> it reupdated since previous backup. The truth? Employee X was
am> responsible, and being on new employee probation would have got
am> the sack. The lie? I might have suggested it had something to do
am> with the electrical storm at the time. Tact saved his job,

That is not tact, that is lieing. Tact would have been telling the
bigwigs who was responsible in a way which didn't get him char
grilled. Either is a viable starategy, but they are different with
different consequences.

>> Beisdes people with big, fragile egos shouldbe stomped regularly, they
>> may grow up.

am> Easy to say :-)

Easy to do to. Only problem is if it's your boss. If so you are
looking for another joba anyway, right? No sane person would work in
such a situation.

-- 
Mail me as rjc not spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk		_O_
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From: Richard Caley <spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Linux Expo 2000 (http://www.itevents.co.uk/exhibitions/linux/LinuxRegistration.htm)
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