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Re: What's going in your Withholding Allowance?

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Originally Posted by JaneYoung View Post
To look at this from a different perspective, stringing together more precise sets of words is a very important skill. Many of the complaints with the manual, Q&A, etc. have to do with this very thing - and the GDC could be providing an opportunity for team members to practice this skill.
Communication is indeed an important skill, so much so that FIRST gives out a very prestigious award to celebrate it. We can act like this is a great exercise in learning to be more like Dr. Flowers, or in learning the real world engineering difficulties that result from differing imaginations between contractor and contractee. However, regardless of how the optimistic among us frame it, at the end of the day these problems are creating a lot of very unhappy customers for FIRST, and addressing them properly is critical to sustaining the program.
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