[Noisebridge-discuss] microscope has been found

[Danny O'Brien]

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:

> a while ago it seemed that a certain person had stolen it, because someone
> thought they had seen that person selling a microscope on the street and
> we noticed it was missing.  It seems that person must have been selling a
> different stolen microscope, because it apparently wasn't this one.
>

I appreciate you posting this, when you could have also just not said
anything publicly on the list. But I don't think you're being entirely
honest with yourself or others when you give that as the most likely
conclusion.

I think being suddenly vague about who it was that was accused and  who did
the accusing, and then concluding that, well, heck, the only explanation
must be that the possibly-imaginary microscope must have been stolen from
someone *else*, is just compounding the earlier error. We have to be as
honest as we can with ourselves.

Here's how I would describe what happened:

"a while ago a lot of us believed that Jay had stolen it, because Duncan
thought they had seen that person selling something from Noisebridge on the
street and
we noticed the microscope was missing.  We screwed up, probably because
lots of us were
mad at Jay for another reason entirely."

If we're not honest about the mistakes we made, we're going to risk
repeating them. People find themselves mobbing someone they don't like or
who did something wrong with lots of extra accusations, and talking
themselves into believing the worst of them.

I'm personally trying to work myself up to apologizing to Jay -- we all
have his email address.

We should also talk about this at the meeting. Some of our systems for
preventing this kind of mistake worked, and some of them didn't, and we can
always improve them.

d.

-jake
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