Re: Consultants--ethical question

[Nick Marino <Rhetonic -at- GTE -dot- NET>]

Oops, I mean Stephen Gillespie.

Nick Marino wrote:

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> Peter:
>
> Please accept my apologies for openly chastising you on this list for
> what you
> meant as a light-hearted joke.  I am sorry.  I should have emailed you
> privately, if I felt the need to express so pejoratively what I thought,
> or
> couched my concerns in less offensive terms on the list.
>
> I knee-jerk responded to what I perceived as just another condescending
> sarcastic remark in an environment filled with such discourse, discourse
> that is so
> oppressive to me.  (Just browse the archives of this or any other list
> and
> you'll see what I mean.)
>
> While I still disagree with your analysis of "the consultant," I regret
> that I
> brought myself down to the level of expression that I so detest in
> expressing
> my disagreement.
>
> Hope that you can forgive my asininity, sir.
>
> Peter Collins wrote:
>
> >     "Consultants--Ethical" an "oxymoron"?
> >     I am a consultant.
> >     I am ethical
> >     I like the joke. I am either big enough to take it, or too stupid to
> > understand why I shouldn't.
> >     I feel for anyone who unwittingly causes offence in public, suffers the
> > embarassment of discovering what they have done, and then, further, is
> > humilated by a public hurt more pejorative than warranted and infinitely
> > more personally directed than their original (possible) lapse in
> > sensitivity or good taste.
> >     I have long lived with the wise old saw (a two-handed cross-cut,
> > actually) that a consultant is one who borrows your watch to tell you the
> > time - and keeps the watch!
> >     But it's true! Of course. It is the basis of much excellent consulting.
> > Naturally, as good consultants all, we would never take any such story at
> > face value - we go further and investigate the facts behind the facts.
> >     Did you know that the client was running out of time to catch a train?
> > Had recently been blinded? Had a new braille watch but was not fully
> > confident of his reading of it? Still had his old non-braille watch? Was
> > delighted to be told the time (and offered a lift to the station), realised
> > that he HAD got the time right and could manage the braille watch perfectly
> > well, and so gave the old watch to his samaritan?
> >     No?
> >     Well, we've all got room to grow.
> > P
> > ========================================================
> > Peter Collins, VIVID Management Pty Ltd,
> > 26 Bradleys Head Road, MOSMAN 2088, Australia
> > +61 2 9968 3308, fax +61 2 9968 3026, mobile +61 (0)18 419 571
> > Management Consultants and Technical Writers
> > email: peter -dot- collins -at- bigfoot -dot- com                ICQ#: 10981283
> > web pages: http://www.angelfire.com/pe/pcollins/
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