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Dick wrote:
> Some readers project a sarcastic or rude
>"tone" on the words I've written.
Michael Oboryshko wrote, recalling the early days of e-mail:
>The email-shunning managers tended be very effective in person.
<snip>
>But when subordinates (such as tech writers!) started sending
>email to these people, the raised eyebrow and sonorous voice
>didn't work anymore. If you sent them a request or proposal that
>was logical and well written, they couldn't pull rank and
>dismiss you so easily. They had to respond with an equally
>clearly reasoned response -- and some of them were not capable.
Like Christine, I'll say again: Dick's posts have never offended me. (I've
sometimes disagreed with him, but that's another matter.) Neither was I
offended by Kelley's posts: I just didn't agree with her. (And I think that
analogy of peaches and apples, representing hiring practices, was *magical*.
A keeper.)
What I do find offensive - to the point sometimes of deciding to delete
unread - is people who are not willing to discuss, merely to lay down the
law. That's as easy by e-mail as it is in person - easier, in fact: and the
effect is of an instructor, not a participant: someone (linking to what
Bruce Byfield said) who is creating a hierarchy, with themselves at the top.
Obviously it's not possible to respond to everything! But someone who
persistently enters debates only to slap other people's opinions down, is
offensive.
my 2 pence.
Jane Carnall
Apologies for the long additional sig: it is added automatically and outwith
my control.
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