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> I have to disagree, Greg. I have been biting my tongue on
> this for several months, but given the many recent and
> not-so-recent ugly techwr-l threads, I have to spit it out.
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> I can state for a fact that I have received in the past a
> resume from one of our more disputatious fellow list members,
> and I filed it in the circular bin immediately. You see, the
> person in question is so argumentative and often rude on this
> message board that I couldn't even imagine a job interview
> with him/her, let alone sitting next door and working
> together! Experience is nice, but at in my company's culture,
> a can-do/will-do attitude and the ability to "go along to get
> along" occassionally are worth that much more. If I might
> translate and rephrase an old
> adage: There's no such thing as "Can't"; there's only
> "Won't". At my place, the Won't-ers need not apply.
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I'm sure whoever you are referring to in this post is glad you did what you
did. Honestly, what did you hope to gain by such a post as this? To frighten
people into silence? This sort of behavior is far more shameful than being
grumpy, in my opinion.
> Fellow members near and far: Remember that next time you
> insist on having the last word (many times over, I might add)
> or duking it out in a very ugly manner on the message board.
> It really DOES matter. I had to finally say it. I have been
> waiting for someone else to say it in my place for a long
> time. Since it hasn't happened, here it is.
>
Oh, bosh. Grow up. Stop indicting whole classes of people. What you've done
is supremely cowardly and unfair to all the other people here besides the
one that's got your panties in a wad. How's that for incriminating talk, eh?
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