@AtypicalPsych Often, they CAN get away with it. Imagine a team of 3 (Tom, Dick, Harry) working for a firm (call it “ObnoxiCorp, Inc.) Tom, who‘s disliked by Dick & Harry, has come down with laryngitis right before a series of team meetings. Dick owns the firm; Harry is ... >>>
@AtypicalPsych <<< ... the administrative assistant, responsible for reserving tables for twice-weekly lunch-meetings. When Tom gets severe laryngitis (in the middle of an urgent project) & is under medical orders to “talk” only in writing for 3 weeks, he can text: but Dick tells Harry ... >>>
@AtypicalPsych “For the next few weeks, schedule our business-lunches at this new place, the ‘NO-Key-Aah Digital-Free BistroPub,’ because I just got some great promo codes for them that’ll save ObnoxiCorp 50% each time until these codes expire.” So this sounds legit to Harry, & he does that ...
@AtypicalPsych ... maybe Harry (not liking Tom very much) has no particular reason to bother asking questions, when there’s an obvious money-saving reason “and it’s just for a few weeks, anyway: so we can affordably try out the new place to see if it’ll work well for future meetings” ... >>>
@AtypicalPsych <<< ... when Tom sends Dick and Harry a text-message or e-mail asking that the meetings should be done in the old/usual place instead, for a couple of weeks at least (and explaining why), Dick texts back that : /1/ this can’t be done because [__reasons__], ... >>>
@AtypicalPsych /2/ that Tom can still take part by writing notes, and /3/ that objecting to a “temporary money-saving change of location as we investigate a new & possibly more economical meeting-site” won’t look good on Tom’s next performance review.
