The Tourist
Moderator
This brings up one of my pet peeves. And that's the idea of "being liked."
As a former manager, I don't know how many times my superiors asked about someone we were about to hire and asked the same stupid question, "Is he a 'good fit' for our company?"
My answer was pretty much always the same, "I don't care if he's Mussolini's grandson, he has the skills I need."
Just because you work together doesn't mean you have to like each other.
And so it is with tact and diplomacy. I don't care if every Islamic cleric puts a death warrant out on every Harley owner, as long as the trains run on time and the oil flows.
Consider our condition here. For the most part, we are conservative gun owners. My guess is that some of us are Democrats that like firearms, or sporting firearms. We are a pretty homogeneous group.
And even we disagree on some topics.
So what are the odds that two societies, divided by geography, culture, religion, history, social mores and industrial sophistication are going to disagree? My guess is that they are going to be on opposite sides of any debate most of the time.
Given that, learn to live with it and figure out new ways to succeed at what we need.
As a former manager, I don't know how many times my superiors asked about someone we were about to hire and asked the same stupid question, "Is he a 'good fit' for our company?"
My answer was pretty much always the same, "I don't care if he's Mussolini's grandson, he has the skills I need."
Just because you work together doesn't mean you have to like each other.
And so it is with tact and diplomacy. I don't care if every Islamic cleric puts a death warrant out on every Harley owner, as long as the trains run on time and the oil flows.
Consider our condition here. For the most part, we are conservative gun owners. My guess is that some of us are Democrats that like firearms, or sporting firearms. We are a pretty homogeneous group.
And even we disagree on some topics.
So what are the odds that two societies, divided by geography, culture, religion, history, social mores and industrial sophistication are going to disagree? My guess is that they are going to be on opposite sides of any debate most of the time.
Given that, learn to live with it and figure out new ways to succeed at what we need.