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   silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 22:24:59 JST silverwizard
   Boss: *reviewing my slides for a talk* "I don't understand any of this from my slides! This talk is bad
   Me: Uh... why would the slides be the talk? The slides are just some anchors and an agenda?
   Boss: Well yes of course they are, but looking at the slides I don't understand the topic, these are just point form!
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     Patch Arcana (patcharcana@furry.engineer)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 22:27:56 JST Patch Arcana

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     @silverwizard It's always strange to me how many managers don't understand this concept.

     I literally went to management school and this was like the one and only thing they taught in business communications, it made up like 40% of the semester.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 22:27:56 JST silverwizard

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     • Patch Arcana
     @patcharcana To be fair - this is a product person trying to manage me and a team of really intense engineers and constantly flailing. But you'd think he'd at least know what a talk is
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 23:21:35 JST silverwizard

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     • hypolite
     @hypolite It was a fairly high level talk given within the business. The talk was me to coworkers.
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 23:21:36 JST hypolite

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     @silverwizard Then why are they reviewing a slide deck of a technical talk? What context is this talk given in?
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 23:22:16 JST silverwizard

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     • me
     @me Exactly!
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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 23:22:17 JST me

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     If the slides explained it all, why would this even need to be a talk rather than just an email?