[Foundation-l] Criticism of employees (was VPAT)

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sun Feb 20 02:05:53 UTC 2011


On 02/16/11 10:29 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
> If criticism is unduly harsh in your opinion, you should say so to the
> people doing the criticizing as it happens (privately or publicly). Nobody's
> perfect; sometimes people are too harsh. And sometimes text is just mis-read
> or mis-phrased. That's the nature of text-based communication, or any
> communication, really.

Any two of us can use the same word differently. It's the responsibility 
of a good-faith reader to assume the more benign of two possibilities. 
We can't afford to be too easily offended by an unfortunate choice of 
words.

Ec




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