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Subject: Re: Commercial entrants to future CCT's

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 15:49:23 02/23/05

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On February 23, 2005 at 15:58:41, Peter Skinner wrote:

>On February 23, 2005 at 12:56:35, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>Are you sure it's not an ego thing?
>>
>>Ed
>
>Not at all.
>
>They could have just said "We're are not playing because your an as**ole!".
>
>That would have been fine. Just as stating they thought I couldn't manage such
>an event, and they weren't participating due to that.
>
>They could have said many things that would have hurt, but to lie to me only
>pisses me off.


Say I would ask for your salary and you just want to be polite with me and give
me an evading answer, would you consider yourself lying?

Bottom line is that people don't have an obligation to answer unsolicited
questions. To draw conclusions from an evading answer is not only unfair but
most often just plain wrong.

Ed



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