Re:The Great Asshole Fallacy
by Dominisi on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @03:41PM
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I agree with you here.
In a previous career, I was responsible for delivering timely and accurate information to people who then went and put their lives on the line based off of that information.
I was regarded as "brash" and an "asshole" because I would correct my colleagues information as they were giving it to those individuals who were going to put their life on the line.
I wasn't doing it to demean or belittle the people who I was correcting, I was doing it because had those operators gone out with wrong information, it could lead to their deaths. And I would much rather be thought of as an asshole than quietly and kindly "talk" to my colleagues AFTER they had delivered bad information and corrected them in private.
In a previous career, I was responsible for delivering timely and accurate information to people who then went and put their lives on the line based off of that information.
I was regarded as "brash" and an "asshole" because I would correct my colleagues information as they were giving it to those individuals who were going to put their life on the line.
I wasn't doing it to demean or belittle the people who I was correcting, I was doing it because had those operators gone out with wrong information, it could lead to their deaths. And I would much rather be thought of as an asshole than quietly and kindly "talk" to my colleagues AFTER they had delivered bad information and corrected them in private.