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Old 10-06-2010, 10:56 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight View Post
Stand on principle, but not to the point where it becomes a pyrrhic victory. You may be right, but if you're the one who ends up being punished because you couldn't just let something go, then it doesn't matter.
More imporantly, even if you puruse it to the point of being a Pyrrhic victory, don't actually call it that to anybody you know because they'll probably make fun of you. And three years later your boss will probably still be joking about how "I don't use big words like..."

Not that I'd know or anything.

(and if you do that, then definitely don't the next day use bacchanalia in conversation.)
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