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A professional reply would start like: "Thank you for your contributions. Unfortunately, due to uncertainty surrounding sanctions associated with your organizat
by pphysch 4y ago
A professional reply would start like: "Thank you for your contributions. Unfortunately, due to uncertainty surrounding sanctions associated with your organization, we cannot accept your patches (...)".
This is not that.
The key is that the onus is clearly on the sanctions themselves, not the uncomfortable feelings of a mysterious "we".
- anonymouskimmer 4y agoRitual phrasing does not make something professional. And the lack of ritual phrasing doesn't make it unprofessional.
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- pphysch 4y agoMaking something about personal feelings, when it is ostensibly not, is textbook unprofessionalism. How can you not see that?
- anonymouskimmer 4y agoBecause sociopaths are without expressive feeling, not professionals? If you've somehow learned, or have been taught, that professionalism means not emoting then you've been taught wrong IMO. Moderation in all things, including lack of emotion. "I don't feel comfortable leaving pertinent information out of our regulatory filing, even if it's technically not against the law to do so." Letting another person you are working with know that you are uncomfortable is the polite way to enforce personal boundaries in a professional, or personal, setting.