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There is a very difficult, but very rewarding method of dealing
with another team/person/<x> who cheats, and where the referees
are firmly on the side of <x>.
You play very hard, very honest, very sincere (with an appearance
of naivite [na�vit� for the 8-bitters]), and very, very patiently.
It will happen that someone cheats *so* blatantly that the referee
has to call it. Then you make sure that everyone knows it.
Now, not everyone can do this, and not everyone will be `lucky'
enough to be there when the slip is made, but the effect is
devastating,and very rewarding. (The first time I found myself
in such a case, the individual left the company within the week.)
This is ONLY ONE tool (Call it the slow scalpel.) and we need many,
and we need incredible stamina to maintain the level of effort
that they all require to be effective (and we shouldn't have to
do any of this), and we all need to work on all of them whenever
we have the energy and mindset[s] that make it all work, and it
will take generations, but some results will show up, here and
there, in the short term, and the final results will come the
quicker for our efforts.
(Oh, dear, I'm sorry to sound so gung ho. I'm not; I'm tired too.
Just: We should do what we can, when we can, because it'll be
better if we do than if we don't. And we can still rail against
having to do any of it!)
Ann B.
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