Re: "After-the-fact" revision: speaking at the wrong time....

["Karen E. Black" <kblack_text -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

During my first and only contract, I was given a manual to revise for a new 
release.

I commented to my team leader, in the presence of the 3 other people in my 
cube farm, that the previous release was pure shit, and I wondered how it 
had got past the editors. The next thing I knew, both my team leader and my 
manager pulled me aside to apprise me of the fact that the person who had 
written the previous release was sitting to my immediate right. He/she had 
complained to them separately.

Ouch. Why, I wondered aloud (not to him/her), didn't she/he take the 
opportunity to mention to me at the time that she/he had been the one to 
produce the work? He/she could have had the satisfaction of watching me sink 
into carpet up to my knees.

Once we had had a few conversations as cell-mates, however, we discovered 
our common left-leaning tendencies, and we still get along almost famously. 
She/he works for another company now, as do I.

At my current job, the Web usability analysis I wrote during my second week 
apparently caused the director of (a business unit) to complain both 
privately and publicly about the tone and content (which I have since 
revised). However, he/she no longer works for the company (about 3 months 
later). I have been informed that the new director/vice-president is using 
my document to revisit the content and may in fact re-open the project.

Is there a freakin' lesson to be learned here??? Maybe timing. Maybe tone.
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