For my final Dear Data I chose to track an entire days worth of my fake responses. Through out my life my friends and family have always called me out for using a very fake voice when I’m talking to people I don’t know and professionals who are usually older than me. So I chose a day this past week where I worked at the beach club in the office. This means I was helping members all day and answering phones. So A LOT of fake responses.
The day starts great I don’t speak in the morning when I get ready for work so there was nothing to mark down until about 8:30am. My first fake response of the day is also my only data mark that doesn’t have symbol attached to it and that’s because it was me talking to the man at the cash register at Dunkin. Then I got to work and a long day of fake responses started.
I now notice looking back that on this particular day I talked to more members in person then over the phone. I also see looking back that literally every single time I spoke to a member either on the phone or in person I put on my fake retail voice and definitely also put on a big fake smile.
I also see that a few of my fake responses were to my co -workers. Usually I don’t use my fake response or behave in a fake matter to any of my co-workers, but a few of my managers and newer co-workers I don’t know very well so they get fake Taylor when I speak to them.
The only other big discrepancy I saw on this dataset was that they only fake responses I made in the day that didn’t involve my fake voice was the two text messages I sent to old high school friends who were asking about hanging out. Typically in a normal school year setting I would be sending many more fake text responses and emails to people and faculty asking me questions that have the time I don’t know the answer or don’t want to answer.
I also want to point out that the dataset ends after 5:00pm because that is when my shift ends and I went and when I’m home there are usually no fake responses with my family because I don’t think through everything I say to them. I pretty much say whatever I want.
Overall this Dear Data was definitely the most interesting. It took a lot to constantly remember to mark down a fake response through out the entire day and I’m sure I missed a bunch, but it was fun to see just how fake I am through out my day at work. It also makes me wonder what it would be like if I just used my deeper natural voice and said everything that I wish I could say to people.
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