Sometimes the pop culture we love just teens hits differently in retrospect.

Maybe it's a tabloid story we couldn't get enough of or an illicit student-teacher relationship

on our favorite show. We're Suzy Banna-Karim and Jessica Bennett,

posts of the new podcast in retrospect, where each week we'll revisit a cultural moment from

the past that shaped us and probably you to try to understand what it taught us about the world

and our place in it. You're the first person that I've talked to about this for years and years.

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Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the new corner office, the podcast where we share strategies

for thriving in the new world of work, where location and hours are more flexible than in the past.

Today's tip is to reschedule things well. Handled well, you might free up space in your schedule

and make others happy too. I'll start this episode by saying that I really dislike rescheduling things.

In general, I like to figure out before I commit to something whether I am actually going to do it.

I assume that other people have busy lives as well and they are no doubt doing difficult things

to make our original time work. Keeping the commitment is really about being respectful.

So I almost never ask to reschedule things. But that doesn't mean I don't sometimes

welcome a little more breathing room. I recently got an email from someone asking me to reschedule

a virtual discussion that was supposed to happen in a few days. She explained the situation and

said that she was happy to keep the current time if it was best for me. But if I was open to another

time, she would welcome the opportunity to move it. I loved that framing. The note was so respectful

of my time and that it honored the commitment we made. She was only going to move the time,

if I was neutral or if the new time worked better. As it turned out, the original week was getting

pretty crowded for me too. So I was quite happy to move the event to a different time.

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