FLASH: Professional behavior? RE: FLASH: Alcatraz site

[Tirah]

Hmm.


I don't know about South Africa, but here in Seattle, home of

Microsoft et al, and one of the most wired cities in the world, 

the high tech community is quite small in that everybody knows 

everybody else, and people keep running into their pasts in all

kinds of situations. (been there, done that, you could say... :)


Rant and rail against the list all you want, but I can say for

damned sure that if I had an attitude like that, and sprinkled 

it so liberally with phuck, peeps, and whatever else, I'd be

out of work before the next time it rained here.


I certainly wouldn't assume that there aren't any prospective

employers or people with connections to prospective employers

on the list. And I sure as heck wouldn't want those prospective

sources of income to see me behaving like this either.


Talent (perceived or otherwise) isn't the only thing that follows

people around, and certainly isn't the only thing employers look

for. Employers also look for people who can cooperate with others

and take criticism in stride. Most places here come to their finalized

design with some sort of input and concensus from the team and the

client. And that includes criticism. 


Last I checked, HR people (you know, those folks who do the actual

hiring...) tend not to have Flash URLs either.


I can't imagine talking to people this way and expecting them to

stay in the room for a long enough time to work out a Flash contract

with me. :p And being reasonably polite and circumspect has been

a very good thing indeed in this town. It may well be that others

will simply have to learn that the hard way, wherever they are.


Flame away if it pleases you. You're already in my kill-file. This

mail is for the benefit of anyone else who found it useful.



Tirah





------------------------------------------------------------------------

To UNSUBSCRIBE send: unsubscribe flasher in the body of an

email to

list-managershocker [dot] com

.  Problems to:

ownershocker [dot] com

N.B. Email address must be the same as the one you used to subscribe.

For info on digest mode send: info flasher to

list-managershocker [dot] com