Re: Lectures and written communications

[Brian Whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 10:57 AM 5/29/02, Rick wrote:
> Robert Cohen wrote:
>
> > By the way, I responded back that my question wasn't answered
> > and I rephrased my question but received no response.
>
> I suspect that a finite set of "statements" for an anticipated range
> of queries related to the company's products has been approved by the
>  corporation's legal department.  The person (or perhaps the computer
>  program) responding to your question may have selected the most clos
> ely related statement from that set based on key phrases in your ques
> tion, along with the boilerplate intro and closing.
>
> Rick Strickert
> Austin, TX


I recently interviewed for a senior position for which the job
requirement profile  had been tailored for another person -
that is to say, I had no illusions.

It was interesting that I was prompted on the desirabilty of using stock
forms where feasible - apparently to avoid the 'Law of Unexpected
Consequences'. This is a lawyer's nightmare, as it seems: unexpected
readings of a letter, but especially of an email, can give totally unwanted
offense.



Brian Whatcott
  Altus OK                      Eureka!