Re: FWD: RE: Troublesome Writers

Subject: Re: FWD: RE: Troublesome Writers
From: Marilynne Smith <marilyns -at- qualcomm -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:37:54 -0800

Why not fight back? I've been in a situation where the part of our group was regularly busy with character assassination - if not my character, then someone else's. Anyone's character.

It was what they did for entertainment and no one stopped it. Finally one of my clients overheard what they were saying about me and told me about it. I went to my manager, then to her manager when she refused to do anything about it. My feeling was that this was a bad habit, and it wasn't good for the department or the company. Worse yet, they were doing this in the presence of our clients. In my case, the event they were talking about had little basis in reality. It was just someone's take on what had happened with no understanding of what they saw. (They saw me talking on the phone for hours when I was on overtime. They interpreted it as my talking to my friends. In fact, I was taking changes from a client in another city who had missed his deadline, but whose opinion was crucial.)

My company did do something about it, and we were the better for it. It's tough having people make up stuff to entertain themselves and having other people take it for truth.

Marilynne

At 09:55 AM 12/16/00 -0700, you wrote:

Jane S. writes, Also Bill Burns writes:


<snip, snip, snip>

The fact is, so do those workplaces, and yet it is so
common for everybody to gang up together like a little tribe of survivors
and assassinate the character of the departed.

If everyone gets together in the act, then maybe it's character assassination. Maybe it's just consensus.

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Marilynne Smith
Sr. Technical Writer
QUALCOMM
marilyns -at- qualcomm -dot- com
(858) 651-6664
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