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Old 11-20-2006, 06:29 PM   #33
Aliantha
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Originally Posted by 9th Engineer
The first thing I'd address is that the effect doesn't have to be really damaging for me to be involved in it. If it doesn't hurt me then I won't say nay, but all it has to do is impact me in some way for me to want a say in it. The most obvious way it impacts me is the very things people say they want, you're now introducing a large new group of people entering systems they've never been a part of. That will impact me through new obligations (I've actually already had to attend seminars on gay/trans workplace dymanics), increases in fees to cover new obligations of companees, and in other obvious ways. This isn't really what most people talk about of course when they say it will impact them, and frankly it isn't the majority of what I care about.
Must have been tough seeing the whiteboard at that seminar with the blinders on...
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