Adam Moskowitz wrote: > OK, here's one: Don't insult the people you work with. Not to their > face, not behind their backs, not even if you're sure they'll never see > or hear it. It's rude, unprofessional, and lack of respect for your co- > workers (if not for their abilities, then at least for the fact that > they're fellow humans) is going to affect you ability to do your job > well. > My wife was a bean counter and proudly proclaimed, "I count beans!" When she quit the accounting firm to become a full time mom (she somehow thought with three kids at home her workload would be less....), she sent everyone a note saying "I count NO beans, except the ones that go into soup."
Now, if Derek had talked about "those damned bean counters" or other expletives, that might have been insulting. But it would have been the expletives that were the insulting part, not the slang. Do you get mad every time someone says, "the geeks" or "the nerds"? Do you dislike Slashdot because of its tagline (you may dislike it for other reasons, such as most of the stories not following the tagline, but that's a different story altogether)? -spp _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
