On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:27:46 -0500, "Martin H. Eastburn"
wrote:

One of Guy Lautard's Bedside Readers has a short paragraph about
one of his guys that would outright fire any of his employees
that wouldn't answer an apprentice's questions on how to do
something.

Pete -

I don't go for the Guy Lautard paragraph - I don't think it was him...

Sounds like you would fire the Senior man who forgot how that student tool
worked 40 years ago...


I read it as meaning fire the senior person who *wouldn't* help the new
guy (as opposed to a "couldn't remember" situation).

Pete