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To: Paul V. who wrote (4434)	1/15/1998 1:13:00 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10921

O.T.:Sorry, Paul. I have a hard time being polite, sometimes. How do you respond when someone says something absurd, and is quickly proven very wrong? Laughter? State the facts, without emotion? Say nothing? I'm on the governing board of a social-services organization that runs the only day-care in our little town in rural Alaska. 3 months ago, we hired a lady as director for the day-care. She came to us with glowing recommendations, is related to the town mayor, and has held responsible positions in one of the Native corporations. After three months, it became obvious that we had made a mistake. She was spending a lot more money than was coming in, and doing creative accounting to cover it up. At the board meeting where we discovered this, I had a hard time getting the other members to agrea to fire her. They said, "she has a lot of friends in town; lets not make her angry; we need to be polite, go slow, and make sure noone's feelings get hurt." I said, "It doesn't really matter whose feelings get hurt. We can't have someone in that position who can't balance a checkbook." I finally prevailed, and we agread to meet with her the next day, and give her a letter telling her she was terminated emmediately. The next day, I got to the meeting late, and realized that the letter had not been written, and noone had had the courage to tell her she was fired. So I told her. In my experience, being polite to people who are doing stupid things is not a kindness. It just allows them to continue doing stupid things, hurting themselves and others.