Background While serving in the United States Navy I was assigned for 6 months to do maintenance on fire fighting and safety equipment for my division. The position is titled Damage Control Petty Officer. The position is rotated between junior enlisted people during the year. The work entails making sure doors on board the ship are watertight, battle lanterns have fresh batteries, fire fighting stations are inspected for discrepancies, and all lights in passageways (hallways) leading directly to outside the ship are turned from white lights to red lights at sunset. The lights are changed in color so the white light does not give the position of the ship away at night when a door leading to an outdoor deck is opened while at sea. Events The number of pieces of equipment were outside the ability of a single person to work on. I complained to the Division Office. The office assigned me to train everyone in the division to do the work so at any time the work was outside my abili...
Interpretation My first impression of the email is the text was too long and confusing. I wanted the writer to ask if I had the data available not make me review multiple words involving multiple issues in a criss cross fashion. The second modality of a phone call audio message was very nice because the voice was pleasant and you could listen quickly as the person moved from one point to the other. (Had the voice been unpleasant I would have had a different reaction and interpretation) The final modality of video with a live person was two fold. Was the modality a live face to face meeting or a video of a person talking to me about an issue? If a person was live standing next to my cubicle I would enjoy the communication. Listen attentively, take the matter seriously and have the ability to ask questions or make comments quickly. But if a video only is involved my position is the video was exclusive to create and send for such a simple message. Plus a video of a pers...
Hi Christopher, I am following your posts for EIDT 6510 with Dr. Harrison. Heather Waugh
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ReplyDeleteHello Christopher, I am following your post for EIDT 6510 with Dr. Harrison. I am looking forward to reading your posts.
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