fildien
02-15-2005, 10:58 AM
Dead horse indeed. But just for kicks, I'll make this clear one last time.
Will some of my posts be in error? Yep, because no matter how hard I strive to be accurate 100% of the time, I'm human. I need the same latitude to screw up and fix it that anyone else gets. Plus, realize that I don't make this stuff up out of thin air, and if someone on the team gives me incorrect data then that error may get passed along to you. I'm not trying to pass the buck; I'm just stating a fact.
Will some of the things I say change in the future? Absolutely. That's why I use phrases like "at this time" or "our current plan is..." Because when I use those, it means stuff can change in the future. I don't use such phrases simply to be vague, but rather to make it crystal clear that anything can change. Anything.
Will I lie to you? Nope. Even if you don't believe that I have any personal integrity, I would hope that I've at least proven myself smart enough to have realized that lying doesn't gain anything: not for myself, not for the team, not for SOE. Lying provides absolutely no benefit in this business.
A lie is an untrue statement made with the intention to deceive. Have I made untrue statements? I've certainly made statements that were true when I said them but aren't true now, or statements that I believed to be correct when they actually weren't. Were they made to deceive you? No, they were not.
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Moorgard
EverQuest II Community Guy
I think I will use these tactics in my everday life, like take work for example.
Boss says to me "hey you implement that bug fix to fix that bug that we said wasn't a bug to make the doctors happy but really was a bug and now the dentists and nurses are mad?"
I say "not at this time, cause well I don't think it's unfair that the doctors can now place orders faster, and the nurses could read them faster if they applied some of their knowledge and used their learned abilities. But really they should just get off their ass to do their job properly."
Yeah that would go over.
Will some of my posts be in error? Yep, because no matter how hard I strive to be accurate 100% of the time, I'm human. I need the same latitude to screw up and fix it that anyone else gets. Plus, realize that I don't make this stuff up out of thin air, and if someone on the team gives me incorrect data then that error may get passed along to you. I'm not trying to pass the buck; I'm just stating a fact.
Will some of the things I say change in the future? Absolutely. That's why I use phrases like "at this time" or "our current plan is..." Because when I use those, it means stuff can change in the future. I don't use such phrases simply to be vague, but rather to make it crystal clear that anything can change. Anything.
Will I lie to you? Nope. Even if you don't believe that I have any personal integrity, I would hope that I've at least proven myself smart enough to have realized that lying doesn't gain anything: not for myself, not for the team, not for SOE. Lying provides absolutely no benefit in this business.
A lie is an untrue statement made with the intention to deceive. Have I made untrue statements? I've certainly made statements that were true when I said them but aren't true now, or statements that I believed to be correct when they actually weren't. Were they made to deceive you? No, they were not.
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Moorgard
EverQuest II Community Guy
I think I will use these tactics in my everday life, like take work for example.
Boss says to me "hey you implement that bug fix to fix that bug that we said wasn't a bug to make the doctors happy but really was a bug and now the dentists and nurses are mad?"
I say "not at this time, cause well I don't think it's unfair that the doctors can now place orders faster, and the nurses could read them faster if they applied some of their knowledge and used their learned abilities. But really they should just get off their ass to do their job properly."
Yeah that would go over.