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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (68438)	3/11/2003 12:35:10 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Exactly! Now if I could have written my answer as succinctly as you did, I would have posted it on the foreign affairs group. When I worked in Bell Northern Research lab, we had a good accountability policy. If you hired someone whom later we had to fire, it did not matter how high you had gone or if your hire was still under your chain of command, the task of firing was to be done by you. If you wrote a program that crashed, even if the crash conditions were discovered years after you wrote it, they'd call you back get you to fix it. Changing departments and climbing the ladder did not protect a person against poor decisions. Now if we could somehow implement this policy in Washington, we'd be so much better off. ST