Re: If you don't want people to know your age...

[Beth Agnew <beth -dot- agnew -at- senecac -dot- on -dot- ca>]

In many instances having someone who thinks contrary to me is exactly 
what I want, so that we get the balanced view. And you want someone who 
can stand up to recalcitrant SMEs. But this guy was just a jerk. He 
would make an argument out of someone saying "I like blue", if you know 
what I mean. It's one thing to hold your own position; another to start 
an argument for argument's sake. I remember just walking away from him 
at the gathering thinking "What an idiot". Agreed, without wine in his 
system, and in a business situation, he might have been the most 
competent techwriter one could have ever wanted. He never got the chance 
to show me. I had plenty of qualified applications, and no reason to 
expend the time on someone who already had one strike against him. We 
tend to think people are their most authentic and natural in a social 
situation vs. business situation, because they can be themselves. If 
that was him, I didn't want him on my team. Rush to judgment? Perhaps. 
But it was my dime, so I get to make the rules.

Contentious SOB? You? Nawwwwww.... :-)   Aren't we at the age now where 
we can be lovingly called "curmudgeons"?
--Beth

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