Hey, Sadie here!

So, a few chapters back I gave out a link to a "Director Feedback Form". Because no one can stop me from doing silly things.

I just...

Your responses have been...

So, so beautiful.

It is, in fact, too beautiful to keep to myself. I gotta share how epic some of y'all are.

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First question was, what's your opinion of the Director. There were some short responses, including "bad", "quite negative", "🤬", and "bad and stinky". I do love people who know how to be concise.

Most were medium-length responses, such as:

She is an inhuman being that sees other's humanity as a weakness. Oh and she also is a control freak Pretty sure the words I would use to describe my feelings for the director would be censored due to their vulgarity and malice She has all the charm and perspicacity of a dead slug. She suffers from delusions of adequacy. If she ever had a clever thought, it died alone and afraid. Feels like an ancient fossil who can't bend their minds around new ideas. she reminds me of Umbridge from harry potter She has lost sight of her true purpose. The power has obviously gone to her head. They should change name to Director McDirectorface

Beautiful responses, I love them all.

Aaand then there were some long, surprisingly well-thought-out responses that I need to highlight:

In perhaps the most polite terms that I can currently articulate, she is lost to her own pride. If there is anything left to redeem, it is buried deeply, and there is nothing to be gained by continuing to risk the wellbeing of the many people under her dubiously-granted authority in any bid to rediscover it. "The Director" has demonstrated a worryingly cavalier attitude towards the long-term health of the product under her jurisdiction; changing project deadlines and parameters on a whim without consulting stakeholders. She has also been recorded engaging in blatant threats and retaliation against team members who voice concerns. Combined with her frequent narcissistic outburts and loudly stated delusions of grandeur, "The Director" has created a hostile work environment, one ill suited to team production and unlikely to produce a satisfactory or timely end product. It is my professional opinion that she is not suitable for her role, or indeed any role involving authority. It seems to me she has been doing a difficult job nonstop for far longer than anyone could possibly consider reasonable, and, as often happens to people in that situation, she has become unwilling or unable to recognize when the situation has changed and some of the rules she's tasked to enforce no longer make sense.

Seriously, the biggest validation as an author isn't selling books, it's seeing that people have honest-to-god thoughts and emotions about something I wrote.

Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.

Thank you.

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Second question was an open-ended "you would like her to be...". I had to provide options, so mine were "promoted", "given a medal", and "other".

Amazingly, shockingly, one person chose "promoted". I can only presume they were trolling.

Three people chose "given a medal". However, one of them specified that was the only thing she was to be given. Ever. I assume the other two were in agreement with that.

But the "other" responses... Just... Here:

Fired (in a kiln, perhaps?) Given a “you tried” sticker reprimanded/replaced by her superiors/shareholders for the buggy mess of a system she produced. shoved in a barrel with a bunch of broken glass and rolled down a hill! Given one last lesson on playing with Dracoraptors

turned into a slug and placed into an unending field of salt

Flogged

Informed she is making people sad

hit over the head with a steel chair

Punted off a cliff into a pit of Legos, then set on fire, dunked into liquid nitrogen, then yeeted into the sun.

made redundant in an unfortunate right-sizing move.

Beautiful. Creative. Mildly concerning. I love them all.

There were also a couple common themes. A lot of people said to make her an NPC for a while. Other people said she should be given the worst bad luck/karma that has ever been had, and placed on a world as an absolute nobody. And several people suggested turning her into a goldfish.

All great suggestions.

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My last section is an open "anything more to say" section, so I want to highlight a couple people here.

There's two people who suggested in great detail giving her a life of working a customer service job. One specified that customer satisfaction was 100% necessary in EVERY case, even for karens and complete morons. The other wrote a few good paragraphs on learning/showing empathy.

One person had a well-thought-out plan for a trial replacement, which then would lead to the Director being booted forever. You. I like you. Sadly, the plot is going in a different direction, but you're not too far off course. The person you nominated is correct. Also, homemade grenades are in your future, congrats!

Oh, to the person who said there's a great lack of dumplings/pierogi/empanadas in my story, I shall keep that in mind. Thank you.

One person replied here with "The Director is an absolute quaternion", and to the other questions with "a quaternion". I'm not quite sure what that means, but I like someone who knows what they're about.

One person wrote "She needs therapy, to get over herself, and a good stew to humble herself and also she needs to personally give me twenty dollars". I wholeheartedly agree. I'll see what can be done.

And to the person who tried to get the full Bee Movie script into there: I'm glad to see that meme is still alive.

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So yeah! I'd just like to thank everyone who took the time to respond, it's given me hours of joy. So much so I had to share some of it.

Thanks for reading!!!

~Sadie~