WTF? on page L2 of today's Globe and Mail
Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daUnfortunately, this column isn't on the Globe and Mail website. It's a new column called "Damage Control, A Weekly Guide to Surviving Social Scrapes" by David Eddie.
To: letters@globeandmail.com, damage@globeandmail.com
Concerning the Damage Control column in Tuesday's Life section ("The fix for your BlackBerry blunder? Lie"). When someone is caught emailing during a funeral, the only response with "a touch of class" is to acknowledge the stupidity of what he did, grovel for forgiveness in writing (not "an apology card" but a letter), accept whatever might come of the apology including likely no response at all, and in any case to move on, chastened and hopefully wiser but with one's integrity intact.
Advising that he should lie and spin to regain his dignity- what sort of dignity is that exactly? Knowing for the rest of his life that he lied to a friend whose father had just died? Daring his grieving friend to call him a liar? Setting himself up to eventually be discovered in the lie?
Aside from the many reasons why this is terrible advice for anyone, I'm most disappointed that the Globe and Mail saw fit to publish this kind of "Damage Control." I really did think you held to a higher standard than that.
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To: letters@globeandmail.com, damage@globeandmail.com
Concerning the Damage Control column in Tuesday's Life section ("The fix for your BlackBerry blunder? Lie"). When someone is caught emailing during a funeral, the only response with "a touch of class" is to acknowledge the stupidity of what he did, grovel for forgiveness in writing (not "an apology card" but a letter), accept whatever might come of the apology including likely no response at all, and in any case to move on, chastened and hopefully wiser but with one's integrity intact.
Advising that he should lie and spin to regain his dignity- what sort of dignity is that exactly? Knowing for the rest of his life that he lied to a friend whose father had just died? Daring his grieving friend to call him a liar? Setting himself up to eventually be discovered in the lie?
Aside from the many reasons why this is terrible advice for anyone, I'm most disappointed that the Globe and Mail saw fit to publish this kind of "Damage Control." I really did think you held to a higher standard than that.
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Date: Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:32 am (UTC)You have GOT to be kidding me.
You're kidding, right? This is a joke, right?.....
Right?..... =:-0
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