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That's because he uses "not sure" as weasel words, remove the weasel words and you end up with: "Is there anything we can do to slow up the franchise community

That's because he uses "not sure" as weasel words, remove the weasel words and you end up with: "Is there anything we can do to slow up the franchise community on the other solution? What communication from either McD or Midd can or will go out?" That already sounds a lot more damning. And this is an executive, so if he's asking questions in an e-mail he's telling you to do something. So anyone working for him will interpret that as: "We need to do something to slow up the franchise community on the other solution. Send out a communication from McD or Midd."

axus 3y ago
"All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have" "There's nothing wrong with saying, you know, that you've recalculated."
- gruez 3y ago
  Except in the Trump–Raffensperger phone call, we actually have the full recording, whereas in the case of the mcdonalds ice cream machine we only have a short quote selected by the plaintiff. If you read my original comment carefully, you'd see that I'm not dismissing the "smoking gun" outright, just that I'm reserving my judgement until the full document came out. If in the case of the Trump–Raffensperger phone call, the only source I had to go off of was a self-interested source (eg. Biden campaign or partisan media outlet) claiming that Trump said "I want you to find 11,780 votes", I'd be reserving judgement as well.
chx 3y ago
A few years ago the company I was working for was going through some rapid growth and communication was not great. So when I needed access to a service after months of back and forth nothing happened so kicked the football up the chain and the director responsible wrote this to the relevant team: > my understanding is that he needs a higher level of access in Marketo to be able to accomplish this task. Do you know anything about this? and presto! less than a day later I got access. It's just how leaders talk.
TheCleric 3y ago
And a thing I've learned with a few executives doing stuff like this: what they say in person, call, etc. that's not being recorded is a lot more direct than what they say in an email that may get pulled in discovery for a lawsuit.

axus 3y ago

"All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have" "There's nothing wrong with saying, you know, that you've recalculated."

gruez 3y ago
Except in the Trump–Raffensperger phone call, we actually have the full recording, whereas in the case of the mcdonalds ice cream machine we only have a short quote selected by the plaintiff. If you read my original comment carefully, you'd see that I'm not dismissing the "smoking gun" outright, just that I'm reserving my judgement until the full document came out. If in the case of the Trump–Raffensperger phone call, the only source I had to go off of was a self-interested source (eg. Biden campaign or partisan media outlet) claiming that Trump said "I want you to find 11,780 votes", I'd be reserving judgement as well.

chx 3y ago

A few years ago the company I was working for was going through some rapid growth and communication was not great. So when I needed access to a service after months of back and forth nothing happened so kicked the football up the chain and the director responsible wrote this to the relevant team: > my understanding is that he needs a higher level of access in Marketo to be able to accomplish this task. Do you know anything about this? and presto! less than a day later I got access. It's just how leaders talk.

TheCleric 3y ago

And a thing I've learned with a few executives doing stuff like this: what they say in person, call, etc. that's not being recorded is a lot more direct than what they say in an email that may get pulled in discovery for a lawsuit.