What Your Boss Wishes She Could Tell You
The head honcho in the corner office has a secret (and it's not where the mini Snickers are stored): the information you might need but that she could never actually tell you.
By Amy Shearn
"I'm not setting you up to fail."
There's something simultaneously thrilling and horrifying about feeling that you're in way over your head. Jeremy Chernick, a special effects designer and creator who works primarily in live performance for J&M Special Effects, told me that newer employees often believe that he or a client, director or designer is making (seemingly) unreasonable demands. But, he says, after years in the business, he knows what they don't: "The project will be done. Everyone will work together. I personally will take responsibility for the work and protect them so long as they keep up the good work to protect us all." If you're all killing yourselves on a project together, unless your boss is exceptionally (and counterproductively) mean-spirited, he is invested in not having it (or you) fail.
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Published 04/26/2013
