You work as a social media marketer at a brand management company in downtown Toronto
with two other people you know from your college days at Conestoga. The three of you often
work in teams in order to complete tasks on-time, since each one of you has your own strengths
and weaknesses when it comes to completing the work.
This week, you and your co-worker Eisha must head to London, Ontario (two hours away) in
order to attend a family wedding. Your coworker, Brandon, reminds you both that the most
recent project you were tasked with a month ago is due on Monday. He has done his part and
so have you, but Eisha has lagged behind (partly due to the upcoming wedding). Brandon does
not think he can complete Eisha's part, since he is not as skilled in her area of expertise. Neither
one of you can miss the wedding. You think that you can help Eisha complete her part on the
bus back to Toronto after the wedding, but it would make the assignment late, and that is even if
you can get your laptop to connect to wifi on the bus.
All three of you decide it is best to write to your boss in order to ask for an extension on the
project. Your boss's name is Gavin Dupont and he has owned the company for ten years after
inheriting it from his father. He has a doctorate in computer science, and often knows the very
technical aspects of computers and social media, but does not really understand the marketing
side of your job or your teams' tasks. He is often quiet and does not have a friendly reputation,
but he is known to be fair if he is given a good reason for why something must be done a certain
way, even if he does not understand it himself.

1- Task: Decide which of the three of you (you, Eisha, Brandon, or all three of
you) it is best to write Gaven for the extension; what type of communication form it should take;
and how long the extension should be. and also decide on the overall content of the
communication itself.

2- You will also hand in an author's note explaining your choices. include whether or not why you  decided to move towards the person in power or away from the person in power, and what cultural status (individual or collectivist) informed their language choices. You must point to specific examples for each answer used in their message.