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Subject:Re: them engineers From:"Sierra Godfrey" <kittenbreath -at- hotbot -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Mon, 22 May 2000 12:51:18 -0700
Dick Margulis wrote:
>Sierra Godfrey said:
>
>>Justin said:
>>3. Bribe with chocolate.
>>
>>Yes, this is the way. (snip)>
>And Dick replies:
>Hmmm... do you suppose it would be worth giving up the leverage of being able to bribe with chocolate in exchange for full-fledged respect from engineers? I wonder ...
>
And Sierra replies to Dick:
I would give up chocolate AND my box of dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts for respect from the engineers here at my company. Granted, most of them are very nice and we get along well. But the two I work with most frequently think I'm a ridiculous and unnecessary kid. Treat bribes don't actually work with those two. But that's alright--being young and little and female, I'm going to run into those people all through my life. I just try to do the best job I can.
