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The cross item, spawned from the jp2 campaign item
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Dec 6 07:56 UTC 2003 |
Picking up from the discussion in the jp2 campaign item:
Dan (cross), I have to say that I am puzzled by your perception of the
character of mary's responses to your comments and actions. I find her to
be a very compassionate, but very outspoken individual with little or no
compunctions about saying what she thinks, but also without a detectable trace
of vindictiveness or hubris about her.
I can only think that you simply did not carefully read what she said to you,
or that you responded to her comments defensively and without really taking
the time to understand what she was saying. I think she was saying that she
wished you would have taken a more collaborative approach to dealing with what
looked like it might not have been a really cut-and-dried abuse case,
especially in light of your relative inexperience in balancing the concerns
that Grex staffers very carefully balance on a daily basis.
That may appear to be totally at odds with the point of adding new staffers
and energizing the staff with new blood, but it really isn't. There's no harm
in asking first, even about things that seem clear, at least for a while until
the responses to those questions consistently agree with your own conclusions
about the appropriate actions. This is essentially analogous to a
self-monitored training period. Grex's management philosophy pretty much
seems to be that it is always good to check with people to make sure you're on
the right track, especially if you think you don't need to.
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