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- From: jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: Honesty, Your word, and Trust -- a crisis?
- Message-ID: <JMD.93Jan25174607@lion.bear.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:46:07 GMT
- References: <JMD.93Jan22123711@lion.bear.com> <1993Jan23.184427.29810@watson.ibm.com>
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- In-reply-to: ron@turing.toronto.edu's message of 25 Jan 93 20:43:47 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.154347.580@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> ron@turing.toronto.edu (Ron Wessels) writes:
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- If I >really< wanted to be on time, I would allocate plenty of extra time
- to cover possible contingencies. Obviously, not everything rates this
- "best effort". For most things, I will make a trade-off between how much
- I want to be on time, how much time I'm willing to waste by being early,
- and what the probabilities are of needing "contingency time".
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- Now, Josh Diamond will contend that I'm being dishonest because I promise
- to be on time, but don't put forth my "best effort". I can accept that.
- However, most people (in my experience) will only be upset if there is a
- disagreement as to the importance of the meeting, and therefore feel that
- I should have allocated more contingency time.
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- On the contrary. I was just getting ready to post a very similar
- message.
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- In real life, there are inevitably differing levels of committment.
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- Spidey!!!
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