Business
In this episode, rachel, Kendall, and Dee talk about: * Coming from dropping out of school in at 16 years old * The struggles of being a manager in a bar in Singapore as a teenager * Developing "scripts" for the various interactions that kept recurring * Internships as cheap labor rackets * Immediate promotion from intern to being in charge of customer comms * Premonitions about layoffs * The camaraderie of joint suffering * Kendall admits that Marketing runs the universe * Gatekeeping as an indicator of a real discipline * The difficulties of managing people who are significantly older than you, especially in Singaporean culture * Predicting her own future, again * Iterating toward a less blunt approach to management * Preferences for feedback via chat vs in person * Experiencing joy when reports succeed * Self-reflection when reports are failing * Cooking experiments You can find Dee on twitter or instagram as @tomyumsushi :) [ Our apologies for the audio glitching in this episode; we did not notice this happening during recording! ] Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music