pc w/ margaret

[applebough]

can margaret do my taxes

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[bossbabygirl]

[oh no. the emotion is devastation.]

Was that my fault...

[applebough]

No!

[ Oops, she came off too strong there. Time to reel it back a little... ]

No, it wasn't. I'm just not good at it...

[bossbabygirl]

[oh noooo.]

You had it pretty high. I wouldn't say you're bad at it.

[applebough]

... I've been trying to do this every day.

[ With a voice that's a lot smaller than it's supposed to be. help. ]

[bossbabygirl]

Oh.

[so sympathetically.]

But why...

[applebough]

I wanted to keep myself busy... and I don't know how to play checkers well.

[ But she also can't play by herself. ]

Most of the games need someone else to play with, after all.

[bossbabygirl]

Well... would you like to try and play? I don't know checkers well, either, but it can't be too hard to figure out.

[applebough]

I'd like to.

[ Yuri sets the board up appropriately so that there are black pieces on one end and red on the other. ]

Who should go first?

[ also we can handwave moves to make it easier for us ]

[bossbabygirl]

I'll take black and go second?

[we can definitely handwave moves.]

[applebough]

Then I'll go first.

[ She tries so hard to think about her first move. What should she do... does it even matter? She moves one of the pieces. ]

I was curious about something... did you ever have to manage someone or something that you couldn't communicate with?

[bossbabygirl]

[she...moves one of the pieces.]

Yes and no. I've managed people who have communication styles different than what I'm used to. Psychic beings, individuals who can't speak, dogs. But I think part of managing someone is to find a way to communicate with them effectively.

Why do you ask?

[applebough]

[ Yuri nods to all that as she thinks about what move to play next... then moves her piece. ]

That's true. I was wondering how others would go about doing it. For similar work, I had to observe the subject to figure out how to handle them effectively. It made me think that I was taking the ability to talk for granted back then.

[bossbabygirl]

And how did you wind up handling them?

[she will move...a piece.]

[applebough]

We mostly had employees take turn with interacting with them, and eventually learn what made them tick. It was a lot of trial and error.

[ This piece goes cha cha sliding ]

[bossbabygirl]

That's pretty much how I would approach it, too. You can't really know how to handle someone unless you take the time to learn.