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rolanniTips for supervising your secretary: If your secretary says she’s confused, she means she’s confused. The fact that you are not confused doesn’t mean that she’s not confused. And it is never, ever, not even if you’re in a really bad mood because someone is being confused about something that’s perfectly clear — it is never OK to respond to a declaration of confusion on the part of the party of the second part with, “You’re not confused,” and/or “This is not confusing.” That’s right up there with those perennial hits, “You’re wrong to feel that way,” and “I’m sorry if your feelings are hurt.”
In the Real World, I compiled and uploaded two more chapbooks this evening: Fellow Travelers: Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number Two and Necessary Evils: Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number Ten . They should be arriving at BN.com and an Amazon.com near you sometime over the weekend.
Speaking of, both Calamity’s Child and The Cat’s Job are now available. The Cat’s Job presents a little bit of a challenge to find, because I somehow munged the title. I will fix the title, but I can’t do it yet because Amazon Back Room says the book is only “publishing” in which state it cannot be amended, even though it’s actively for sale. You can’t make this stuff up. But! Be assured that once I can make it right, I will.
Sigh.
Show of hands: How many of y’all are really glad it’s Friday?
Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.
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Date: 2011-04-23 12:56 am (UTC)I'd be even gladder if I didn't have to work tomorrow.
!Raises Hand
Date: 2011-04-23 07:25 am (UTC)::sits on hands::
Date: 2011-04-23 01:38 am (UTC)It always amazes me just how much confusion can be spread when you think you are being perfectly clear.
Denying the confusion only makes it worse.
Friday
Date: 2011-04-23 02:10 am (UTC)- Jacques
(ps. thanks for Ghost Ship earlier this week... excellent way to spend time... instead of doing other things that probably should have been done, but which definitely would been less excellent and so much less fun)
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Date: 2011-04-23 02:58 am (UTC)Hope your weekend is better than your week.
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Date: 2011-04-23 04:09 am (UTC)re secretary confusion, as a young and new midshipman, we were taught a lot of leadership principles, about giving orders, and making requests and suggestions. About a year later, after we'd gotten to a position to put them into practice, we had an "officer's call" with a very senior officer, who spoke to us about things that he'd learned and used during his career. The first mentioned was to ensure his orders or instructions were understood. It was his failure, not that of the person trying to follow them, if they were not understood. The corollary was to not be afraid to ask for clarification. That was just a bit harder to follow as seniors may think a request for clarification is instead questioning the order.
Brom
e-arcy goodness
Date: 2011-04-23 10:07 am (UTC)I read it in about 5 hours and now... I thirst for more!!!
George, I love you and look forward to your existence!
I need to wake up in about 6 hours though, so sleep now.
That kind of thing is really hard to deal with. Being told how I should think or feel or be always drives me nuts! I just have to keep reminding myself that shoulds have absolutely no correlation with reality and that people are interacting with the person they perceive me to be rather than who I actually am.
- Lizah C
TGIF
Date: 2011-04-23 11:10 am (UTC)Hope your weekend is a good one!
:)
PS Off to amazon to look for more titles...
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Date: 2011-04-23 12:13 pm (UTC)Thanks for the books.
Oh, so you work for Pharaohs!
Date: 2011-04-23 05:12 pm (UTC)My sympathies...I hate being told how to feel too.
Heh. I once tore strips off a System Engineer who claimed, "This
isn't rocket science." I started by pointing out my degree was in
rocket science. sigh.
Thank you for the lovely new releases
Lauretta@ConstellationBooks
Chapbook 10 or 11?
Date: 2011-04-24 12:23 pm (UTC)-James McCain
Atlanta GA
Re: Chapbook 10 or 11?
Date: 2011-04-24 12:32 pm (UTC)Very possibly. Let me take a look.
Yep, you're right.
...pesky fingers