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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 10:28:02 -0800
Well, it did sound a bit as if you were saying that 0% was the only grown-up
response. LOL, oh well I didn't take it personally :)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick Margulis [mailto:margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net]
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 10:15 AM
> To: TECHWR-L; Secara, Maggie
> Subject: RE: New TECHWR-L Poll Question
>
>
> Maggie,
>
> I was only suggesting that if someone finds 40 or 50 percent
> or more of the world hard to work with, rather than 10
> percent, perhaps that person should step back and consider
> just who it is who's being difficult.
And I agree. Moreover, one of the other things we often hear is that
someone has trouble at every job they go through. Everyone hates me, no one
wants to work around here, these people are all idiots. All the time?
Everywhere? Yeah, that person should definitly take another look.
> I used to find a lot more people disagreeable and hard to
> work with than I do now, something I attribute to my growing
> up, not the general nicening <g> of the population.
On the other hand, sometimes it seems like there are more disagreeable
people now than there used to be. Maybe it seems that way from listening to
all the layoff stories, or maybe I'm just getting crankier as I get older.
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