A short YouTube monologue by Alli Peck contrasting interpersonal dynamics in college (classmates, professors) with those in the workplace (coworkers, managers). The speaker recounts an anecdote about working for a stern, professional manager who rarely smiled and challenged her with tricky questions, illustrating the difficulty of adapting to different social norms at work.
The dynamics between you and your classmates, you and your professors, they're one thing in college, but the dynamics of you and a co worker or you and a manager are quite different. My manager at the time, I remember him, he was very stern, older gentleman, very professional, rarely cracked a smile. And you know me, I'm cracking smiles all day. That was difficult working for somebody like that. He would challenge my. Not my education, but he would ask me questions, almost as if to try and trick me.
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