Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 18:27:15 02/23/05
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On February 23, 2005 at 19:28:53, Peter Skinner wrote: >On February 23, 2005 at 18:49:23, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>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? > >I would simply tell you if was none of your business what my salary is. That is >between me and the government who kills me with taxes. > >I wouldn't make up some excuse. Nor would I be polite regarding that evasive of >a question. Not everybody is the same, nor does everybody will have to subscribe to your way of thinking to qualify himself as an honest person in your world vision. An evasive answer to an to unsolicited question is a pretty normal and common thing and is not the same as lying, something you want CCC to believe. Just watch politicians, they give evading answers all the time on subjects they don't want to answer and there could be zillion of reasons, good ones and not so good ones. >>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 >I asked if they would like to play in the CCT. Nothing more, nothing less. A >simple no would have sufficed. There is no reason to say your preparing for an >event that you aren't even attending.. Since the subject is "the commercials" I would say that's a pretty stupid way of business performance. Therefore it's rather logic to conclude the opposite and that they simply meant what they said when they wrote you as I do not consider my former colleagues as stupid business men. But maybe their only stupidity was that they did not expect you to post private stuff in a public forum. After this thread they might decide to never answer your emails again. If you had treated me that way (you did not) I know I would. >Maybe they meant _next_ year's event. Dear god.. maybe I was wrong... > >Or maybe you just shouldn't reply again. I think the very first quality a TD should have is diplomacy and some talent to unite instead of creating an unbridgeable gap by starting a campaign against those you want to have in your next tournament calling them liars. Ed
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