Long story short: Next Sunday - Tuesday I will be a student again.
The training session is put on by the Harvard Business School with the topic of "negotiations." I loved my negotiations class in graduate school and even though I suck at bargaining I really, really like negotiations. (After my work with Spellman on union contracts I think I could have taken a job working in this field. I am much better negotiating on behalf of someone than I am negotiating for me.)
There is extra value for me to attend this training: It will be at the company where my university will be doing training in the future and I might, just might, be the point person on it. To see what they expect in terms of training would be helpful.
As I told my class that next week's classes were canceled I said, "I know this is hard for you to hear because you will miss this class...." and they laughed. I appreciated that. If they didn't know me they would have said, "Oh, sir, we will miss you!"
Today I received the material I have to read before next week and I told my class that I was excited to get homework. Forty students collectively rolled their eyes.
And I laughed.
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