QotD: "Some of your stances weren't as stance-y as we'd like them to be."
Testing was held last night at the kwoon. As Justin was out, it fell upon myself, Evan and Phil to run the testing -- a testing that ended up with way more people testing than we thought there would be. Made for some crazy time trying to organize it all. And natch, I'll admit that the above quote is actually said by me...
But I can live with that quote. Unfortunetaly, I said far worse during the evening, mainly the F word: Fail. After the testing it was pointed out to me (by, oh, everyone) that the word "Fail" has never really been used to describe a not-pass result. Instead, it has either been described as "See it again", "Not quite there yet", "Good, but some issues" or "Not a Pass". But never "Failure". It felt weird when I was saying it, and I couldn't figure out why... now I know. And I feel terrible about it. It was an overly harsh assesmet on my part, and a misrepresentation of what testing is supposed to be about, and the fact that I said it given my own feelings about testing makes it that much worse. Wendy and Mike, Bernadette et al said they don't think anyone took it the 'wrong way' but I still think that, well, I failed in that part of the evening. Unfortunetaly, I don't think there's much I can do about it now.
I feel bad about it. Not happy.
Posted by kannik at October 22, 2004 12:50 PM in Daily, Kung Fu