Page 5 of Conning Her Dragonkin Boss

Harla

A jolt of excitement rushes through me. My first assignment. And it’s calendar planning.

Admittedly, calendar planning and organizing schedules bring me so much joy. There’s nothing better than merging strategic time-blocking with color-coding and links. This is a low-energy, low-hanging-fruit kind of activity that I gives me a steady drip of dopamine while clicking through my training modules.

I click on the link to Khanner Rokoth’s calendar that Harla forwarded to me, expecting to do some clean up. Maybe a few updates here and there.

It’s worse. So much worse than I could even imagine.

I sit for a full minute just staring at the chaos in front of me, trying to make sense of it.

How?

Why?

And,oh no.

Meetings are double-booked. There are overlapping commitments that shouldn’t be possible unless he’s figured out how to be in two places at once. Some appointments aren’t even labeled.

This is criminal. This is a scheduling abomination.

I click on the training module to the next video, and break out my work notebook and my favorite pencil case where I store all my favorite highlighters and pens. Then, I print out the next six months on individual pieces of paper so I can see them laid out in front of me.

Thankfully, I have a large workspace.

I take the six sheets of paper, and lay them out in a line. Then, I list out the priorities, cross reference the most recent Operations Calendar to add any other non-negotiables, and list out other events that need to be rescheduled or canceled.

With that done, I painstakingly update all of Ser Rokoth’s calendars month by month.

I color-code everything based on priority.

I sort meetings into digestible blocks, leaving breathers so he doesn’t combust.

I flag a few conflicts that need rescheduling.

Within an hour, I have a clean, manageable system ready.

Now, for event planning.

A quick glance at this week’s schedule tells me Khanner is due to attend a high-stakes quarterly review, where he’ll present financials to the field executives with the CEO and COO in attendance.

I review past presentations, pulling key data, organizing reports, and setting up pre-meeting briefings so he doesn’t have to scramble.

This is my zone of genius.

I can do this.

I lock in my changes, send out confirmation emails, and fire off a concise summary to Ser Rokoth, attaching my revamped system for his Tuesday morning review.

Becausedammit, we are going to have a Tuesday morning review.

No errors. No wasted time. Just efficiency and organization.

I lean back in my chair, satisfied.

I may not have met Ser Rokoth yet, but when I do? I’ll be ready.

Chapter Three

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