Nothing makes me cry more than me (an A) asking to record a walk through of somethjng I’ll own, my manager saying No and then me being lost af even though I took notes…

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Write a follow-up email detailing the steps you captured. Ask to fill in any missing steps / gaps

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This is a good idea

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Use your phone to video record.

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^This. I do it quite often as well as record audio for crucial calls that I transcribe notes later. Obviously delete the recordings thereafter.

What? Weren’t you there?

It was like 30 steps on how to replicate this excel….I was there but I really couldn’t keep up and wanted to record

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Ask them to slow down

Too late now

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Yeah thats rough. You should schedule a short call with them to do it again

Just record on your phone and delete it later.

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