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Subject:RE: New TECHWR-L Poll Question From:"Secara, Maggie" <Maggie -dot- Secara -at- indymacbank -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 7 Jan 2002 09:52:42 -0800
And if, out of 10 people I deal with regularly, one is a little trying (I'm
not saying so trying that we can't work together) that's 10%. I don't see
how this says anything about the maturity of either party.
Or is it immature to notice that not all relationships are equally smooth?
Maggie Secara
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandy Nicholson [mailto:sandy -dot- nicholson -at- quadstone -dot- com]
>
>
> Dick Margulis <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> wrote:
>
> > Now THIS is an interesting poll. It's interesting because
> we all know that people, when encountered in large numbers, are pretty
>much the same everywhere. So the answer that any individual gives is
>most likely a reflection of that person's outlook/maturity/coping skills,
rather than a
>reflection of being in a particularly trying environment.
>
> Ah, but you're making a tacit assumption that every technical author
> encounters coworkers/clients `in large numbers'. As I work in a small
> team within a fairly
> small company, it's not at all difficult for me to answer
> `None' to the poll question. I don't see this as a reflection of my
exceptional
> maturity. :o)
>
> Sandy Nicholson
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