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Blanked on my manager's name in the middle of my first performance review
I was sitting in the tiny conference room on the 4th floor last month, halfway through my first big review, and my boss asked me to walk her through the project timeline. I opened my mouth and could not remember the name of the vendor we used, even though I had emailed them 30 times that quarter. I just froze for what felt like 10 seconds, then said "the one with the blue logo" and she laughed, but I could feel my face burning. Afterward I started keeping a one-page cheat sheet in my notebook with names, dates, and numbers for every project so I never get caught like that again. Two weeks later in a client call, that sheet saved me when the same thing almost happened with a budget figure. Has anyone else built a system like this after bombing a meeting, or is there a better way to keep details straight under pressure?
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