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Episode 70: Dee Mirai (Vanna.com)
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Content provided by Rachel Perkins and Kendall Miller, Rachel Perkins, and Kendall Miller. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Rachel Perkins and Kendall Miller, Rachel Perkins, and Kendall Miller or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
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 :)
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3
100 episodes
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Manage episode 299845733 series 2317207
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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 :)
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3
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