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Cake day: August 6th, 2023

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  • From my perspective, critical thinking is one of if not the most important things to learn, so I agree with you there.

    It sounds like you have only been in appropriately staffed and scoped jobs for your 25 years, which is great. I’ve personally found myself in much leaner roles where check-ins happen weekly and there’s too much to do and not enough bandwidth to ensure everything is happening as it should. That’s why my ability to critically think and follow directions allowed me to succeed. I would have failed otherwise.

    I would not be the manager in that example but I have worked with those that would react this way.


  • Let’s present it in the way that matters.

    You’re not in school anymore, you’re at a job. We decided that after our story boarding session, we want to build out more of scenes 10 and 11. Please make storyboards for those.

    Instead of doing additional storyboards for scenes 10 and 11, you do an amazing set of additional storyboards for scenes 6 and 12.

    Guess what? This wasn’t what I needed, you need to follow directions better. I’m probably not firing you, but now I’m forced to micro manage you because you’re untrustworthy. I will fire you next time.

    I’d argue it’s better for you as the student to learn that paying attention matters vs learning through the experience of being fired for incompetence.