Not cheap at all. I'm replying to this:
All this is rapidly evolving even as we tap, of course. Real
negotiations about matters of importance never take place on an
unmoderated listserv.
He posed it as a statement which is why I responded the way I did.
That is Tony's style: Broad statements of "fact" which are, in
reality, his opinions. Notice the word "never" in the second
sentence. Really? And "important." Important to whom? And who said
these particular negotiations were happening here in the first place?
No one did. It's a red herring.
This, I believe, is why Tony likes face-to-face meetings instead of
email or listserv correspondence. In person people don't have time to
react to this kind of nonsense before the next ridiculous sentence is
uttered. In an email people have time to compose an answer based on
what was actually said instead of a fleeting impression.
Frank
On Jun 13, 2007, at 01:50 PM, Brian Siano wrote:
Frank wrote:
First of all, that is one of the reasons I work for myself.
Secondly, if you think this never happens, you are more naive than
you let on. Do you honestly believe everything a CEO says publicly
about an employee's departure is true? Please say you don't. Why
should this situation be any different?
According to Jannie Blackwell, one of the conditions of Fenton's
severance package is that he not talk about it, Perhaps *that's*
why he hasn't said anything.
How do you know it's evolving and not over? You're implying you
know something the rest of us do not. Do you?
So we get the cheapest of the debating tactics: "Are you _sure_? Do
you really _know_? How do you _really know_? Couldn't you be
_wrong_?" Jesus, you sound like a freshman who's just read the
_Republic_ for the first time.
All we know is this: Blackwell says that Fenton was offered a
severance package (Could be true or not.). UCD says they're still
investigating the issue ("Investigating".is a broad term: they
might've made their minds up by now, but haven't acted on anything,
and they could claim to be "investigating.") We can speculate all
we want about these two different claims.
But there has been no _official_ word that John Fenton has been
fired, asked to resign, resigned, or been exonerated. As far as the
facts are known right now, Fenton is still an employee of UCD.
As far as I can tell, this is what Tony's been saying, and somehow
many people here fail to grasp this.
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