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People who expect EAs to read minds are watching too many movies with butlers or pepper pots like secretaries. Imagine asking your EA why they didn't do someth
by Rastonbury 5y ago
People who expect EAs to read minds are watching too many movies with butlers or pepper pots like secretaries.
Imagine asking your EA why they didn't do something you expected them to do without being explicit about what you want.
- zeven7 5y agoMaybe some people are flexible and just like to have a random day off every once in a while and don't care so much exactly if it's a certain day or not
- burnished 5y agoWhy would they do that in this scenario? There is a world of difference between trusting someone to clear your schedule and tell you that you are taking a day off, and silently expecting them to do that on a specific day.
- kortilla 5y agoImagine asking a software engineer why they shipped code so slow it made a system unusable when “don’t slow the software down 1000x” wasn’t explicitly in the requirements. This is exactly the same thing. Assistants are there to help people and to know what to do with high level directives. “I want to take a stay at home vacation next week” should not require explicit instructions to reschedule everything and notify people…