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" My meeting with Ian got rescheduled, and we ended up having it this morning.  I wasn&amp;#039;t worried about it or anything. He&amp;#039;s been having one-on-ones with everyone -- just to get a sense of what everyone does, what we like and don&amp;#039;t like, what we can do better, that sort of thing. That what I was expecting. I was not expecting this, as soon as I sat down: &amp;quot;So I understand you were gunning for my job before I got here,&amp;quot; Ian began. He has a way of speaking to you where he looks you dead in the eyes, in this direct way that almost feels confrontational. It makes me incredibly uncomfortable.  &amp;quot;I was,&amp;quot; I admitted, trying to match his gaze. &amp;quot;I obviously don&amp;#039;t have the experience you do, but was confident that I could grow into the position.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;So how do you feel working under someone now?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I was working under someone before,&amp;quot; I reminded him. &amp;quot;So it&amp;#039;s not all that different.&amp;quot; He leaned forward. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been getting the sense that you don&amp;#039;t approve of the way I&amp;#039;ve done my job thus far,&amp;quot; he said.  I thought about how to answer that. He&amp;#039;s my new boss: do I kiss his ass or be honest? Something told me he&amp;#039;d appreciate the latter more. &amp;quot;I wouldn&amp;#039;t say that,&amp;quot; I said. &amp;quot;But I would say there&amp;#039;s been a lot of change all at once.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;What would you have done differently?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Done these one-on-ones before messing with our production schedule and process,&amp;quot; I said. &amp;quot;Find out what&amp;#039;s actually broke before trying to fix things.&amp;quot; I was pretty sure I&amp;#039;d gone too far with that last bit, but Ian smiled. I realized it was the first time I&amp;#039;ve seen that. &amp;quot;I like you, K.,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re spunky. I want you to speak up more, be more proactive. Can you do that?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I can,&amp;quot; I said, smiling. &amp;quot;But you may be sorry you suggested that.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I doubt it. I want you to write up a list of everything you&amp;#039;ve liked about working here, and not liked about working here, since day 1. Can you do that by the end of the week?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Absolutely.&amp;quot;  I walked out of the meeting feeling better about work than I have in awhile. I&amp;#039;m glad that I have a new boss that actually values my opinion. Don&amp;#039;t get me wrong -- Ian&amp;#039;s tough, and I&amp;#039;m pretty sure we&amp;#039;re going to butt heads over a lot of things. But I think I&amp;#039;m going to learn a lot from him.  Meg got a different assignment, because she just started. Ian&amp;#039;s having her highlight the reasons she loved the best job she ever had, and hated the worst. We compared notes over salads at lunch today, and both agreed that pre-station buyout, our time together at the news station was our favorite work experience thus far. I&amp;#039;m hoping that, since Ian wants so much input from us, this job will end up being even better. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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