John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> organization. Suppose someone (or several people) for whom I'm
> responsible are really good implementers. Suppose they come to me and
> say something that I hear as "we would like to go to IETF a day or two
> early, incur additional costs for hotels and the like that we expect
> you to pay for, and spend the time doing programming on their work
> rather than yours/ the company's". I wouldn't predict good results, at
> least unless I hear the request as including "if you don't let me do
> this, I'm likely to start looking for another job" and, of course, that
> might or might not work.
"Boss, J,K,Q and I will be working 30 hours overtime (each) that weekend getting
the interoperability bugs out of the code before we go to the IETF meeting
about the specification that determines what code we are supposed to write".
It actually won't get to "looking for another job", because the person likely
left when the IETF support went away.
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