Communicating With Diplomacy and Tact: Day One
I have always strived to be an entertaining communicator, drawing inspiration from the dialogue of Douglas Addams, Kevin Smith, MASH, and Waiting for God. The upshot of this is that when I write and/or actually speak I hope to be above all things funny. The downshot is that more than one would imagine I am familiar with the taste of my own feet.
In my circle of friends, when we have occasion to accidentally insult one of our friends we will always make up by buying the offended party a beer. At this point I am keeping bar tabs. In some cases I owe kegs. Thus, I approached my boss to request a two day course called "Communicating with Diplomacy and Tact: A Two-Day Workshop".
From her response one would think I had donated a kidney. Never have I seen so much gratitude and enthusiasm over one of my decisions. In my circle of friends, the news was taken differently. Only one of my friends actually believed I would go to a class called "Diplomacy and Tact" and that's because he's sitting next to me right now in the class. Hi Rob!
Most of this class is review, from the old communication days, little is new. I haven't gotten arrested or angered the teacher. Rob however made her hide behind the projection screen laughing and blushing in embarassment. Well, different people have, different gifts I suppose.
I don't think any new ground was covered here before, just rehashing of my last ten years of college. I am glad college wasn't a total waste of my time although I could argue it was still a waste of my money. Well, I can't even say that. I made some cool new friends, and I learned how to type.
