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Re: 2016 NASA Grant Announcement Day
Dude, they're giving hundreds of teams $5,000, how could that possibly be a thing to complain about? They're taking slightly too long to give you a massive amount of money?
The thing that fazes me the most about your attitude is that you don't seem to care at all that you're being really, really rude to people that are, again, giving out $5,000 to hundreds of teams. You don't seem to care because you think it won't come back to haunt your team, this particular grant cycle. Your priorities aren't in being nice to people giving out tons of money to help you, but in not being caught being rude to those people.
If you must think about this from a purely utilitarian, how-can-this-help-me attitude instead of a simple issue of respecting generous organizations, then think of it this way. Hundreds of teams rely on these grants to get through their seasons. If the powers that be at NASA see the FIRST community as a bunch of ungrateful, immature jerks who constantly complain about not being instantly handed a lot of money, they will probably be less willing to give out more money in the future. Why potentially ruin it for your team and others in future years?
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