I never told Jessica not to talk to someone (or at the very least, I don’t recall it and highly doubt it). IIRC, in that time period, Jessica and one other researcher were regularly inviting Michael to the offices and talking to him at length during normal business hours. IIRC, the closest I came to “telling Jessica not to talk to someone” was expressing dissatisfaction with this state of affairs. The surrounding context was that Jessica had suffered performance (or at least Nate-legible-performance) degredation in the previous months, and we were meeting more regularly in attempts to see if we could work something out, and (if memory serves) I expressed skepticism about whether lengthy talks with Michael (in the office, during normal business hours) would result in improvement along that axis. Even then, I am fairly confident that I hedged my skepticism with caveats of the form “I don’t think it’s a good idea, but it’s not my decision”.
I never told Jessica not to talk to someone (or at the very least, I don’t recall it and highly doubt it). IIRC, in that time period, Jessica and one other researcher were regularly inviting Michael to the offices and talking to him at length during normal business hours. IIRC, the closest I came to “telling Jessica not to talk to someone” was expressing dissatisfaction with this state of affairs. The surrounding context was that Jessica had suffered performance (or at least Nate-legible-performance) degredation in the previous months, and we were meeting more regularly in attempts to see if we could work something out, and (if memory serves) I expressed skepticism about whether lengthy talks with Michael (in the office, during normal business hours) would result in improvement along that axis. Even then, I am fairly confident that I hedged my skepticism with caveats of the form “I don’t think it’s a good idea, but it’s not my decision”.