Trying to picture a "cow orker"... I keep getting unfortunate flashes of images of a cow trying to rape an orc.
My mother, who is currently the chair of the curriculum committee at her school, has an arrangement worked out with one of the deans, who is a humanities person. When someone needs to be made to do something, my mother writes the e-mail, and when someone needs to be calmed down, the dean writes the e-mail. Unless the person in question is a science prof, in which case it's the other way around--my mother's matter-of-fact style is calmingly rational and unambiguous, and the dean's touchy-feely style is maybe a little frightening, but that can be effective for manipulation.
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Date: 2009-07-15 03:06 pm (UTC)My mother, who is currently the chair of the curriculum committee at her school, has an arrangement worked out with one of the deans, who is a humanities person. When someone needs to be made to do something, my mother writes the e-mail, and when someone needs to be calmed down, the dean writes the e-mail. Unless the person in question is a science prof, in which case it's the other way around--my mother's matter-of-fact style is calmingly rational and unambiguous, and the dean's touchy-feely style is maybe a little frightening, but that can be effective for manipulation.