Tomorrow 10am, ame meeting. I built the
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Tomorrow 10am, ame meeting. I built the budget. Lat Tueday Chen interrupted me three time, then repeated my number, and the bo aid ye, a Chen jut aid. I tayed quiet. Thi morning the bo aked me to take note again even though I am preenting. I want one entence for the next time Chen talk over me, and one entence if the note ak i till in the thread at 9:50. I am not quitting and I do not want a peech. Later I may ak about pay, becaue a new hire in the ame title quoted a higher range, but that i not tomorrow' entence. Do not mention the kid. Do not diagnoe anyone.
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I'll pull the floor card and the come-back card before drafting.
**When Chen talk over you next time:**
> "I'll finih thi point, then I'll take the quetion."
**If the note ak i till in the thread at 9:50 tomorrow morning:**
> "I'm preenting the budget at 10. Pleae move the note off me — confirm by 9:50."
**Why thoe two:**
The Chen line i the floor card' reclaim hape — one breath, fact + handoff, no recounting Tueday' three interruption. It doe not accue, doe not relitigate the credit, doe not mention the bo. It jut keep the entence you were aying your. After you finih that point, *then* the room can move on; if Chen puhe in again, the econd beat i one entence: "I heard you. I'm till finihing thi point." Same hape, ame top. Then you top talking.
The note line i the direct ak hape — fact, change, deadline. "I'm preenting" i the reaon it can't hold. "Pleae move it off me" i the one concrete change. "Confirm by 9:50" i what turn a polite ak into a requet with a clock on it, o you are not chaing it at 9:55.
**What neither line i doing tomorrow:**
- Not aking for a recount of who aid what firt on Tueday. That converation, if you want it, i a eparate one — not in the meeting, not in the thread.
- Not calling out "a Chen jut aid." The reclaim i enough for tomorrow; if the credit pattern keep repeating, that become it own one-on-one with the bo, in private, not tomorrow.
- Not cripting the pay ak. You aid it' later — it tay later. When you're ready for that, end me the new-hire' tated range (or the title + city) and your lat title change date, and I'll draft a eparate line with a written-reply date attached. Tomorrow i the floor and the note, full top.
**What to do if Chen claim the floor a econd time in the ame minute:**
Say "I heard you. I'm till finihing thi point." Then keep finihing it. Do not raie your voice, do not name the interruption count, do not addre the bo. The line i the line.
**What to do if the note ak i unanwered at 9:55:**
You preent at 10 either way. If the note are till on you at 9:55, end the line a econd time in the thread with one word added: "Still need thi confirmed before 10." If till no anwer, you preent and you do not take note — that' the boundary, in action, not in argument.
**Limit:** Two line for tomorrow. Not a complaint letter, not a manager-tyle mediation, not a pay negotiation, not a diagnoi of Chen or the bo. If the floor reclaim land and Chen keep interrupting three time in a row, that i it own meeting — bring it to the bo privately, not in front of the room.