Real-Life Decision Making -- Solution
You decide to ask your supervisor for help.
You drop a note on her desk and ask her to talk to you when she has a minute.
In the meantime, you begin working on your other assignments.
Half an hour later, your supervisor comes to you and you tell her about
your predicament. She says she knows exactly where the footage you need would
be and apologizes for not mentioning it earlier. Within 10 minutes you have
the footage for the important client and you can get on with your work.
This is the real-life decision made by California stock footage archivist
Ellen Lamb.
"I was quite worried because I didn't want my supervisor to think I couldn't
do the job, but since this wasn't in the database and had been archived years
before I had worked for this company, the situation was beyond my control,"
says Lamb.
"The database covers a lot of information, but occasionally we come across
weird requests that no one thought to mention in the database. When that happens,
you have to rely on your own or someone else's memory."