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Subject:Re: Username or user name (generalized) From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:48:37 -0700 (PDT)
Document what's there and make the group justify in writing that they
are making him change what he wrote every time they point out his
"error".
--- Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net> wrote:
>
> Bonnie Granat wrote:
> >
> > Steve said he was outvoted by his group. To me, that means
> > he has to do what the group decided or suffer the consequences.
> > He apparently cannot follow the best advice -- documenting
> > what's there. Are you suggesting that he should insist on it?
>
> I think the position John is taking runs something like this: If
> Steve's group voted to jump off a cliff, it would not be in
> Steve's interest to act as if he were bound by the vote. Now
> I'm not sitting in Steve's seat, with Steve's level of job
> security or insecurity, as the case may be; so I'm not going
> to advise Steve one way or the other. But I think John's
> position is at least tenable--as is yours. This is one of
> those situations where reasonable people not only may differ
> but also do differ.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
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