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Re: Broken promises or BROKEN ROBOTS!
Posted by Jerry Eckert, Engineer on team #140 from Tyngsboro, MA High School and New England Prototype/Brooks Automation.
Posted on 3/30/99 7:23 AM MST
In Reply to: Broken promises or BROKEN ROBOTS! posted by Kyle Hughes on 3/29/99 9:11 PM MST:
: Stressed? Of course. Panicked? Of course. Dissappointed? yes, because now people feel we held out to help Beatty!
: Our team feels terrible that people would think that we would 'fix' our selection.
: Our students and adults have worked very hard to get where we are, and we really can't believe that we have made it this far. Sadly, we can't even enjoy it. Apparently, if you do the honest thing by turning people down because your robot doesn't work, you get labeled as, 'holding out' to make an allience with an ol' pal.
Even if the situation had been different and you had 'held out' to honor
a prior commitment, I don't think your team, or any other, has anything
to feel bad for. It's YOUR choice who you decide to partner with.
It doesn't matter why or when you make the decision, as long as you're
above-board about it (i.e., no matches are intentionally lost and no
commitments are made to other teams 'just in case').
Woody's analogy of the selection process to accepting a date is quite
appropriate. If someone asks you on a date and you decline, that
doesn't prevent you from accepting another offer for the same time.
The one thing you don't do is accept two conflicting offers.
- Jerry
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