Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: American Programmer
Message-ID: <2577@geac.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 88 20:24:26 GMT
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Posted: Wed Apr 13 16:24:26 1988
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  Another response to the managerial "don't comment" dictate is very
simple: "Could you give me that in a memo please? I'd like to cover
my ass."  
  It's only slightly threatening, and expresses the risk involved to
both parties succinctly.

--dave (I've used a variant at another company, who shall remain
nameless) c-b
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 David Collier-Brown.                 {mnetor yunexus utgpu}!geac!daveb
 Geac Computers International Inc.,   |  Computer Science loses its
 350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, |  memory (if not its mind) 
 CANADA, L3R 1B3 (416) 475-0525 x3279 |  every 6 months.