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Following up ZS1, what do yall do? Seems your shitty company wears off on your personality or your surrounded by shitty hires.
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Most of the AI stuff is blatantly obvious when I see it. You are treating AI as some magic bullet that can get your emails to a beyond reproach state. It’s not. It sounds great, but for person who is reading it, 99/100 times it sounds like a copy of a well written sales pitch
Your manager could be micromanager , but there are far more obvious ways to come to that conclusion. Someone refining AI content is actually doing you a favor.
So you just assume I'm an idiot and I can't tell that untrained ChatGPT sounds like a sales pitch? Thanks for the input
What are you looking for here?
You argue with every single person who suggests there could be reasons your manager had to edit your email, often implying they’re calling you an idiot when they’re not.
Do you want sympathy? Pity? Others to share their micromanaging manager horror stories?
Clearly you don’t want perspective, so how can I help?
Please*
It could also be that they have their own communication style and are just tweaking it to fit that
The client may be particular about wording. Maybe try asking the manager what types of things he/she looks for when refining it.
Nah it's not that.
There’s misplaced understanding of what AI can and cannot do.
Faster, deeper and broader in researching - no doubt
Better in crafting emails ? - depends on the prompt, the desired communication style AND availability of historical data about that communication style. If it can’t find that style, it often hallucinates.
So when you asked AI to improve your email, check your prompt and did you ask it to improve specifically for your manager’s style in communicating to that specific customer about a specific issue? Would be interesting to see the kind of changes it introduces, based on the specificity.
The second piece of the puzzle is - some people like to craft messages themselves. It becomes a pain when they can’t distinguish between critical and non-critical messages. That’s truly micro-management. I had multiple managers that way and always had a conflict with that style. None of them lasted in those roles. So just stay put, grin and bear it because it won’t last too long.
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So you think AI corrects the facts that only you know?
Someone said if you give AI to mental patients, it won’t make them smarter. AI may become mental.
And you assume you have facts past what I posted? Please give me another riddle.
Seems we have the same boss
I'm pretty much always going to edit emails. I don't use AI for that, but if the email doesn't "sound" like me, I'm going to tweak it.
Starts with just "Name," and I'm not feeling spicy? Or something other than "Hi" or "Hey", like "Dear"? Going to change it.
Ends with something other than "Thanks, "? Going to change it.
Uses a lot of adjectives, or really technical language when it's going to a client and not a service provider who speaks that language? Going to change it.
Client uses a specific phrase, like "team members" to describe employees or "executive sponsor alignment and debrief" instead of "SteerCo"? We're going to use those terms too.
Proposes times in my time zone rather than the client's? Needs to be changed.
Just doesn't sound right to me? I'm gonna change it.
I spent a long time learning the style of the partner I work with most bc I hated that he would make small tweaks. Now I can draft in his voice/style and that just makes things more efficient all around. That's what you should be striving for if you aren't already.
And yeah some people are just control freaks. It's consulting. There are a lot of us here.