I usually take conversations at face value.  If someone is asking me details, typically I think they want to learn more or help.  Funny, this week I was giving the gritty details.  Thinking – nice, this person may want to join the tribe and help us excel; only to find in future meetings or emails that this person was just pulling out the items to build the “downer” case: “I’m concerned about ….”. 

Seth states that "Snark is clever and funny and easy to spread. Snark protects us from confronting the truth of the situation, and snark is incredibly easy to do. Snark is fun, but it doesn't look good on you."

Let me know how you recognize or deal with such situations.  My response this week was, yes, the items are documented as risks and are tracked… they represent a small part of the entire project.  Thank you for your concerns, so what solutions do you have for us?

Thank You for listening.

Webster: dialect snark to annoy, perhaps alteration of nark to irritate