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Date:      Mon, 13 Nov 2000 18:00:08 -0800 (PST)
From:      opentrax@email.com
To:        lnb@FreeBSDsystems.COM
Cc:        advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: accessing portal site
Message-ID:  <200011140200.SAA06322@spammie.svbug.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011130942500.94985-100000@satan.freebsdsystems.com>

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On 13 Nov, Lanny Baron wrote:
> Hello Jessem,
>
>...[Trimmed]..
>
> I said no. As it works perfectly. So what am I doing? Trying to
> promoteFreeBSD as the great OS it is. 
> 
> I guess to people like Mr. Lehey I am wrong in doing so. I still think I
> am right. And sometimes those nice little super polite letters are looked
> at by the people in the know, and then forgotten.
> 
> That route was tried and went no where. Thats when I wrote the
> "disgusting" one. It worked. I call it Victory. 
> 
I can argue with your results. And I'm not completely aware
of your situation, neither an I aware of any of the steps
you went throught. I'm sure there will be many people who
are unaware of your effort, but will be helped directly by it.

My notes were so that you might encounter less friction and
work when trying to accomplish your tasks. Medociracy(sp?) and
incompitance(sp?) are a normal part of our lives. We see
these situations all the time.

However, recently I've taken the tack to try to change people
I'm directly in contact with, like the manage at Starbucks.
Currently, this store does a great deal of busines, day and
night. However, when this certain manager is on the entire
business crawls. To say the least, this is frustrating to
customers waiting in line. 

My goals is, now, is to make this manager change his ways.
Make this starbucks more profitable. Make the customers
happier. 

You may ask, What's in it for me? :-)

Simple, if I can change this store and manager to be
better for the community we all win. Personally, if
I can accomplish this, it means that I have a good 
chance of running large organizations.

In large organization, people rarely see their bosses;
the guys that sign the checks. If I can influence 
some busines, without my direct involvement the 
skies the limit.

In your case, I would consider setting my goals higher.
Certainly, burning energy arguing with Mr. Lehey, et al.
has it's benifits. However, I believe you can achieve
better benifits by not arguing. More energy by not
arguing, means more energy to do other things.

Again, this is only a suggestion.

				best regards,
				Jessem.






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