On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 02:41, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
He always did that. This time his boss hung him out and that was neither conducive to sympathy for the boss, nor for Ximian. That's how Jeff felt too. You may say what you like, but the fellow works his arse off trying to please people - can't be a great job. As someone else said, the best thing Ettore could have done, would have been to take him aside for a pep talk on how to cope with difficult people.
You have a point there. I didn't realize Ettore was his boss (don't pay too much attention to things like that unless it's absolutely necessary) but I have to agree that if I got hung out like that in public, I'd be less than charitable to anyone or anything associated with it. Sometimes the best way to deal with difficult people (even if it's just that you perceive them as difficult) is to step completely out of the loop and let someone else with a fresh perspective handle it. Looking at it that way, bailing from the list may be the best thing he could have done - both for his own sanity and for the company's image. -- All private email sent with PGP encryption. Email for key. Homepage: http://www.macmanusnet.net/ Freedom in our lifetime: http://www.freestateproject.org Enforce the Bill of Rights: http://www.lneilsmith.com/bor_enforcement.html "Justices Bradley, Swayne and Field emphasized that the first eight Amendments granted citizens of the United States certain privileges and immunities that were protected from abridgment by the States by the Fourteenth Amendment. " - Gideon v Wainwright (372 US 335)
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