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Subject:Re: QA and Writer From:"Susan W. Gallagher" <sgallagher -at- EXPERSOFT -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:49:07 -0800
At 03:28 PM 3/9/96 -0800, Jack Shaw wrote re: the manager
that yelled at me because I wanted to be notified of changes
in the software:
>Sue, just look that manager in the eye (probably not hard
>to find, since with a comment as you're claiming s/he made,
>there's most likely only one...) and quietly reply, "I
>thought we were both working for the same company...have
>I misconstrued our mutual interest?".
>But you'd better do it soon, because that manager will probably
>be working somewhere else next month...if you're lucky. Reminds
>me of a very large, blue employer that had me once...
Water under the bridge now, Jack. I was laid off from that
company two years ago. The manager in quesion is *still* there!
Sometimes there ain't no such thing as justice!
;-)
-Sue Gallagher
sgallagher -at- expersoft -dot- com
