There I was...

...just minding my business, getting 'er done at work, reporting to working group back at the office via e-mail on a very full day on the road with a supplier. Summarizing what was accomplished in terms of failure analysis, corrective action, brainstroming quality improvements, moving new product and technology qual's forward when...

BAM!!!

In comes the e-mail from a collegue taking personal offense at learning curve problems with a revolutionary, proprietary PWB fab process and presuming himself to speak for a whole cross functional group of us who've been working an R&D project for about 4 years (himself only recently and peripherally involved). Implying things about the character of our supplier who has participated as a partner at great risk and expense in a project with unknown payoff likelihood. I'll just chill tonight, count to 10. Then count to 1000. It wouldn't be prudent respond to here in public. All I've got to say about that is...

NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!