Practical Diplomacy, Wednesday, January 17, 2018

[sith_happened]

Today the students found themselves in the Danger Shop, where a podium was standing at the front of a large room full of reporters. "Today we're going to have a practical exercise in diplomacy," Anakin said. "For a vast majority of your life, you are not going to be the lead diplomat in a room. You will, however, be the one who probably briefed the head diplomat, and upon your head will the anger be heaped if he, she, it, or they get embarrassed, even if it's not your fault."

And sometimes your boss turns out to just be super evil, but that was a scenario for another time.

"Your boss is about to address a group of reporters," he said. "He has not read your briefing notes, trusting instead on knowledge he gained from Force knows where. He is about to make a huge, intergalactic meme-worthy ass of himself." He smiled and began the program. "What do you do to stop it from happening? Or do you just let it play out?"

Comments

Re: Scenario!

[reicicled]

Strangely enough, his older self had actually gone undercover as someone with this exact job at one point. And Graydon Creed had been about as prone to listening to his underlings as you'd suspect someone running for President on a campaign based on genocide would be.

"The only people I'd care about making an ass of themselves in public are also the people who would never go into something like that unprepared, soooo..." Bobby shrugged. "I'd let whoever it was screw up, and if they blamed me, I'd point out that I did give them the notes, but I'd be perfectly happy to quit and let them try to find someone else with my qualifications if they're not satisfied with my performance."

Re: Scenario!

[sith_happened]

"Excellent, Mr. Drake," Anakin said. "No doubt they'll replace you with a bootlicker who takes three tries to open a door."