Re: [OT] Musings After Go-Live

In article <492df$42bcad96$45491c57$8153@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
LX-i <lxi0007@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>I think most of us have (certainly the ones with any imagination, never mind
>>>sensitivity) agonised over stuff like this.
>>
>> Such a 'sensitivity' appears to preclude a position in the Upper
>> Management or Executive realms... those people close entire factories and
>> offshore departments at the drop of a hat.
>
>I'm sure that some of those folks do just that - but I think you'd be
>surprised to know how many of them actually do feel bad about some of
>their decisions.

Granted that those who manage not to close factories don't often make the
news... and those who feel badly about it may limit their sorrows to 'Such
a sad thing... ah well... another round, Felice, our glasses near
empty!'...

.... but that an exception or three exists demonstrates, at least to me...
that an exception or three exists.

DD

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