On 02/28/2010 08:43 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 28 February 2010 20:24, William Pietri<will...@scissor.com> wrote: > >> Menacing people like that with "consequences" mainly serves to destroy >> motivation, not create it, so if you're truly interested in getting this >> done, I ask you not to do that again. >> > Nobody has done any menacing. He asked what the consequences would be, > he didn't threaten consequences. (That there will be consequences if > you don't do your job should go without saying. Those consequences > will come from your boss, not the community, though.) >
Well, in my experience, when somebody starts out with "what the fuck" and ends up talking about consequences, it is rarely a purely academic inquiry into organizational practices. But if I read it wrong, I'd be glad to apologize. I think the people working on this (Aaron and Howie in particular) are both talented and hardworking, so I feel protective of them. I'd like them to spend a long time working for the Wikimedia Foundation, and anything that might push against that is going to rile me up some. William _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
