Dânesh Zaki

I sent a slightly inflammatory e-mail today criticizing a comment from a colleague whom I was not particularly fond of. The comment from him was addressed to me and a few more people were on copy too. My reply had the desired effect and he apologized. I felt a sense of victory at this point and thought my reply had done the job.

Things were ambling along and the rest of the day was just about done, when I received another e-mail from him. This was a straight forward question relating to the work I had done. I could have chosen to answer it the following day and informed him so. Instead, as is the case with me always, I jumped and replied to that e-mail with an incorrect answer. This led to a flurry of replies which made me to search for the answer immediately and realize that I had made a mistake. Again, as in the past, I apologized to him and corrected my answer. He remained decent the whole time, never mentioning anything about the comment that he had made earlier in the day (which was some what related to this issue). I felt small and was extremely ashamed of my foot in the mouth comment earlier in the day.

Like they say, some people never learn… (and I guess I am one of them)