Niki wrote:phoenix wrote:I haven't gone through the posts with a fine tooth comb, but the impression I have is that someone wants us to remove any guilt they may have in accepting the job. . .
. . or may want praise for patronizingly refusing it on higher grounds.
The right thing would have been to not even entertain the notion . . .
i.e. . . .have turned it right down, just as you should if "tempted" by a bargain property in the occupied section.
I had made my mind up as stated if you had bother to read the thread before making sweeping judgements.
You give me very little room for making the 'right' choice - accept the job and live with guilt (but have been vindicated by this thread
) or refuse the job and wait for 'praise'. This is not my perspective, this is yours.
This simply emphasises the fact that
this decision is not an easy one which ever way it goes.
Niki : I HAD noticed your comment stating you had made your mind up which is WHY I was perplexed as to your reasoning behind needing to know what others would do. . .
On a deeper level you need to analyse WHY you feel the need for approval or a reprimand from others.
I take it you're a grown woman who is capable of making everyday decisions satisfactorily, therefore, use the same criteria:
1. Make your decision and live with the consequences.
2. Declare WHAT you have decided to do and state you exercised your right to Freedom of Choice . . so sod off to us!
3. Or. . . . in my opinion . . . the mere entertainment of the idea to work in a part of the country that is OCCUPIED by a foreign army means you are a complete AIRHEAD!
On the one hand you state you HAVE made your mind up and yet you still say "whichever way it goes". . . .
Based on this fuddled logic of yours, I would never offer you a job! So take the job, it may just be your last offer.
Got to be cruel to be kind