Your employer leaves a message on your voice mail
asking you to work overtime this weekend, but you plan to
attend your friend’s birthday party.
1. What medium (Email, Text, call) would you use to
explain why you can’t work overtime?
2. Explain why did you choose that medium?
3. Draft a message you might send via email explaining
your situation.
4. In the email Message you drafted above, what type of
email style did you use?(note, memo or letter style)
Answers
Answer:
I would place a call. To get to your voicemail, he/she had to call you.
The message I would leave is for your employer to call you back. Do not say no on a voicemail. The boss will just stew about it.
When you do talk, find out what’s up. Its possible there’s a big emergency. If there’s not a good enough reason for you to change your plans, simply explain you’re not in a position to help him/her. You don’t need to give a reason as to why you’re saying no. Just say no.
As a side note, I’ve been called late on a Friday and been told gather some information and make a report before I go home. As a young manager, I’d do it.
As I became more experienced, I would ask what he was going to do with this information late on a Friday night when all of his bosses were long out of the office. He didn’t have to say because I already knew…the answer was nothing. The earliest his boss would look at what I worked late in Friday night doing would be Tuesday. Mondays are always spoken for. The last thing they’re interested in on Monday is some report from me.
But say what you’re going to say with your live voice. Not an email. Not a voicemail. Not a text.
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