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“Can we talk later?”
“Okay, but I must warn you, I will be in complete stasis from now until we actually talk.”
I scared the shit out of one of my employees. I went to his desk around 330 on a friday and asked to see him in my office. As we were walking across the room, we got stopped 2 times, prolonging the walk.
He later admitted he thought he was being fired for some reason because “office talk” at end of the day friday is how that stereotypically goes, and being stopped twice was excruciating…
I literally wanted to give him more money lol. I convinced HR he was under paid and we needed to pay him more so he wouldnt leave the company. I thought that’d be great news on a friday afternoon, but i almost gave him a heart attack in the process
Yeah, its’ really easy to freak out your people. Better to be up front, like “I have good news for you, can we talk at 3:30?”
Besides, the new-school termination approach is a surprise meeting on your calendar in a weird AM slot with only an hour’s notice.
I’ve heard Tuesday in the afternoon, like 2 oclock is the best. They can go home early and tuesdays are just… Tuesdays
Great news! You’re getting looks at paper … fired ooh
i always ask to know about what. if they evade the question everybody shifts to second gear.
Pattern Recognition really sucks at its job. They did not use a period – they used a question mark.
The ADHD module was running first. What reached pattern recognition was already flawed input.
Let me just be unfunny for a sec, k thx. The period was probably in the omitted context of this made up story on the internet. That is, the previous sentence the person said.
There was MORE text? What did it say? Did it mention what “later” meant?
- Dementia
Technically there is a period underneath the question mark.
No there isn’t. The dot is an integral part of the question mark, not a separate punctuation underneath it. A question mark without its dot wouldn’t be a question mark.
Aw c’mon can’t you be playful & just see the dot and say it’s good enough? 😢
God, disco elysium did shit like this so well.
Read this entire post in the narrator’s voice.
I love that pattern recognition got the pattern wrong.
Pathological Demand Avoidance: No!
Bro/broline holy shit thank you!
Your comment rang a bell with me and I dove straight in. I might have this in certain areas…
Without your comment I would not have come to this specific thing!
I found this book pretty helpful on understanding PDA and Anxiety, other people might too.
PDA by PDAers : From Anxiety to Avoidance and Masking to Meltdowns
Ackshually, as I dug into self-help approaches and business methodologies over the years, it’s become very clear that it’s important to learn to say “no” with abandon. Pretty much begin by assuming that refusal is the correct answer, and then figure out if there’s reason to believe otherwise. In the OP case, I don’t have any idea what the other party wants to talk about and therefore whether I can talk about that, so no. They should write to me what they want to ask about, then I’ll see if the whole thing might just be a text reply, or perhaps I actually need to do more research. Even if we do schedule a meeting, the topic will bounce around in my head a bit in the meantime, and I will be better prepared.
Jim Camp’s book ‘Start with No’ is a good introduction to this for some people, though I remember that it seemed somewhat too cheesy and obvious to me.
This is what my brain is like when its sober. Smoking weed makes at least 3 of those STFU. Unfortunately, one is sometimes Logic.
Weed is like rolling dice. Which high are we going to get today? Will I be productive? Will I be ravenous? Will I be on the floor petting the carpet because it makes my fingers tingle? Who knows!
Ah, the joys of illegal market and unpredictable supply quality.
Restless Leg Syndrome: Wiggle-wiggle Kick-kick
Body dysmorphic disorder: Will I be skinny enough to talk to them later? 😬
Bipolar disorder: I can’t guarantee I’ll be functionally available later.
PTSD: That sounded like a threat.
Restless Leg Syndrome: Wiggle-wiggle Kick-kick
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Meanwhile, the other side of the bell curve:
“Can we talk later?”
“K”
Me drowning in tasks and overworked: "sure’
I hate how spot on needing the time feels…
When you have *all mentioned above, and they combine to form, Super Anxiety Voltron!
