Loading…
19
Can we talk about how 'sleep on it before you reply' is bad advice for some of us?
My old boss in Dayton kept pushing that line after I told him a customer screamed at me over a $180 bill, and waiting just let the anger marinate until I quit two days later. Now I send the reply in 10 minutes while it is still fresh and small, so what do you all do when sitting on it just makes it worse?
1 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In1 Comment
joseph_hunt10d ago
Sitting on things only works if the thing is actually gonna cool down on its own. Some stuff just grows teeth the longer it sits there, like a splinter you keep poking at instead of pulling out. Same reason I stopped doing the "wait a day" thing with texts from my sister, because by day two I was drafting a novel instead of just saying what happened. Fresh and small is real advice, the other version just works better for people whose heads don't spiral.
5