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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: sensitivity
Message-ID: <39@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 14:17:09 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  2 14:17:09 1985
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In article <221@unirot.UUCP> pooh@unirot.UUCP (Pooh) writes:
>
>Again, I ask:  why?  Why should we take it on ourselves to tell
>someone that he's "fucking up" a situation?  Why don't we let him
>have the dignity of finding it out himself and deciding for himself
>whether he's making a mistake?

In general I agree.  Four years on a suicide prevention hotline taught me a
lot  about  the  futility  of  trying to help someone who isn't ready to be
helped.  There is at least one exception though.  If the person fucking  up
is causing _me_ grief or potential grief by doing so I'm going to tell them
about it.  Politely and gently at first, of course,  but  if  the  behavior
continues  I'm  not  above  dropping  a building (or other blunt object) on
them.

"Excuse me.  When you were writing this code, did it happen to occur to you
that  someone  would  have  to  maintain it?  I thought not.  Well, you can
think about it now, while your doing it over again.  The coding standard is
right over there, in that notebook."

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