

If I ask my dev guys why they insisted on html tables when writing divs would be faster and neater and more HTML5 compliant that is not an attack. The effect is the same.Ī question is not an attack. Instead of "You're fired, you lazy idiot" they may say politely "I think it is better if our ways should part". It means they may fire you without arguing.

That doesn't mean they keep employing you.

If that is not what the person wants, that's up to them. The way I wrote this question they have a chance to explain what happened, maybe even fix what happened, without losing face. Now if someone messed up, as that person apparently did, then "putting up with passive-aggressive nonsense" as it has been called is the smallest of their problems. The question was "How to ask them without making it look like a personal attack", and that's what I replied to. who says "I messed this up for my client, how can we fix this", because they don't like punishing you for someone else's mistakes). (This will be different from country to country, but some state agencies may be a lot more helpful if they get a call from your lawyer / tax advisor etc. If the person did indeed make a mistake, that gives them a chance to pretend that they found the mistake themselves (and not you), and admit to it or even start fixing it before you realise that it was a mistake - which is ten times better than being told by you. That's absolutely fine to state, and anyone would give you a nice explanation unless they have severe personality problems. So you state the assumption that the person did the right thing, but you don't know why it was the right thing, and you want to know why so that you understand the situation better. Could you tell me what the reason was that you did ABC instead, so I understand better what is going on? " "I am not an expert in this matter, but my understanding was that XYZ should have happened.
