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Anybody who watched Survivor knows that, while the ability to "make nice" is not the *most* important thing one needs to function in a team (and don't most of us work with others rather than in complete solitude?), it certainly ranks highly. If you can weed out the rude* people and still have a satisfactory pool of candidates, no one is hurt (except the rude people). It's a little naive, IMHO, to think it would *never* be an issue.
Tracy
*Rude people, IMHO, are not the ones who get frustrated at the occasional inappropriate or poorly-thought out post. Rude people are the ones who are *consistently* nasty when there is no other reason beyond their own entertainment and ego stroking.
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Tracy Boyington tracy_boyington -at- okcareertech -dot- org
Oklahoma Department of Career & Technology Education
Stillwater, OK http://www.okvotech.org/cimc
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>>> Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com> 11/16/00 11:45AM >>>
> >As a recruiter, I **always** check postings and archives when hiring.
> >On the assumption that the rude ones would give my clients a hard time,
> >I don't consider them.
>
> Ruling out candidates because they're rude is like keeping an excellent
> doctor away from your tumor because of his lousy bedside manner. A good
> writing candidate is good for reasons other than personality. I have
> encountered many very nice, polite people who were lousy technical
> writers. Great people to have lunch with, though.
>
> If you actually have clients who say "give me a writer who may suck, but
> won't give me a hard time," go ahead and do what you **always** do... but
> the ones who ask for quality writers may feel slighted that you omitted
> the rude ones.
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