"ScottW" wrote in message
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Don't BS Dave. JJ had plenty of exchanges with Arny
and despised Arny's constant diminishment of others in a
futile attempt to prop up his own ego...

Ah, a futile attempt by ScottW to do a little ego propping of his own.

Actually, JJ was suffering from cognitive dissonance at the time because he
was being agressively romanced by Atkinson (promotion JJ's spatial
microphone) and Shain (various perks and gifts). . Unfortunately they are
just posers, so in the end JJ lost a bit of face. On top of that, AT&T labs
sort of collapsed under him.

Well it was all a good breaking point, and JJ now seems to be doing well at
MS. I guess we can call that a happy ending.