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Originally Posted by pfreivald
Indeed, that was part of the issue. People who have lost their manual-labor jobs and desperately want them back don't respond well to a guy who brags about his own island and helicopter saying that we don't want those jobs back.
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That would be relevant if he were only referring to those manual labor jobs, and specifically berating them. He wasn't. He was referring to everyone who's lost a job recently (myself included), to get something better, to find something more exciting, more relevant to today's challenges.. And for me to say that I want my old job back now, I'd have to lie.
Big picture, he was trying to inspire, even those of us who are out of work, to find something better than what we had. So he blooped up. Seriously, big frackin deal.
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Calling my mentors immature and unprofessional is not helping, Isaac.
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You want help? Help yourself.
How about this, a novel idea, try and talk to these three guys who are clearly aren't "getting it" right now, and make them get it. You have nothing to lose, and their support to gain. Sitting here on CD is not going to get your mentors back.
There have been some excellent posts earlier in this thread about things you could say, but you just came back and make it sound hopeless. Try Again. The words of your team should be more important to those mentors than the six words from the speech, period.
Quite frankly, nothing Dean has ever said (and I've heard him speak for going on 20 years) would ever make me walk away from the ideals of FIRST and/or the students on my team. I'm sorry those three feel differently.