Azur Lane: The Tragic Admiral’s Azur Life

"Commander, these are the parts that require your final confirmation. In addition, the arrangements for the allocation of materials have been transferred to Miss Ding'an after Miss Belfast's confirmation."

Shangri-La briefly reported his part of the work and then gave his position to Memphis.

As an assistant, Shangri-La doesn't actually need to come here to report specifically now, but considering that Memphis still lacks experience in these areas, she came here to set an example.

After finishing the report, Shangri-La did not stay in the office. He took the paper documents that needed to be stored separately and walked to the archive room. At this time, Memphis hurriedly caught up with him.

"Are you confused, Memphis?"

Shangri-La stopped beside her and asked with a smile. Memphis nodded slightly and looked at her seriously:

"Shangri-La, is it enough for us to just give a brief report like that when we report to the commander?"

"I see, that's the problem."

Shangri-La smiled slightly, looked around, and then pointed to a door:

"This side should be free, let's talk in the room."

The two entered the empty room, and Shangri-La said:

"The commander told me about your situation, and I've actually learned about your previous work. To put it simply, my opinion is that you take your work too seriously, Memphis."

Shangri-La pushed up his glasses, put down the document in his hand, and looked seriously into Memphis' eyes:

"Of course, I'm not saying that it's bad to work hard. But we have a good, powerful and effective helper in our fleet, Bai Ze. So most of the time, providing the commander with a brief but focused short list is more effective than providing a detailed report."

"We have no idea which data or documents the commander will need next in his work, but the necessary and important information must be in Bai Ze's database. Therefore, what we need to do is to provide an 'index' that can efficiently find the corresponding information."

"Of course, a more concise and refined report is also very valuable, but this can be made up when there is free time. After all, our commanders' work is not always so busy, but once it is busy, they will be completely busy and have no free time."

Shangri-La is not bad at handling paperwork, but if we don't count classification and filing, which is what she is best at, she is actually much worse than Memphis in other aspects.

Memphis is a very good ship girl and is suitable to be a secretary, but it is obvious that Shangri-La is far superior to Memphis in terms of understanding and adaptability to the commander's work habits, daily style, etc.

Memphis, who is serious about her work, was used to treating everything carefully and meticulously in her own style in her relatively leisurely work. This was the main reason why she could not keep up with the pace after Yang Sikang really got busy.

Yang Sikang is busy on many fronts. He often allocates time periods accurately and quickly by distributing tasks, arranging processes, and coordinating his own calculations with Bai Ze, so as to make the best use of his time and maximize efficiency.

In this situation, let alone Memphis, no one can keep up with Yang Sikang's way of working if he strictly and carefully completes every detail of every job!

However, Memphis would not listen to these things in the past. In fact, Shangri-La had reminded her of similar things a long time ago, but obviously she still insisted on her own views.

The result is what we have now.

Memphis listened carefully, but still frowned slightly and raised his own question:

"But wouldn't this mean that the commander won't be able to get specific information when he needs it?"

"Normally, no, because when necessary, the commander will assign the corresponding tasks directly to you, as long as you can keep up with the pace of the work. And correspondingly, if you can't keep up..."

Shangri-La spread his hands, and Memphis understood instantly.

"No wonder the commander didn't assign me any tasks like he did before..."

Shangri-La smiled slightly:

"Our commanders' habits and working styles are very different from others, so we should adjust our working methods accordingly."

“Phew…Thanks for your reminder, Shangri-La. I think I understand my problem now. I will…well, try hard to learn and adapt.”

"I believe you will be able to do it soon. If you have any questions, you can always ask me, although my advice may not be the best."

Shangri-La stood up and picked up the paper documents that needed to be stored:

"Then I'll go to the archives first."

Shangri-La left, and Memphis took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

Shangri-La's advice and reminders seemed to solve all the problems that had troubled and annoyed her these days. Although this was not entirely in line with her philosophy, compared to the problem of adhering to her own work philosophy, not being able to keep up with the commander's terrifying work efficiency had become the biggest problem.

She stayed here for a while, gathering her thoughts, rethinking according to Shangri-La's advice, then sorting out a rough order of priorities and making some rough decisions.

After confirming what he was going to do next, Memphis stood up, left the room and returned to the office.

In the office, although Yang Sikang was sitting at his desk, he was still busy with several matters at the same time as usual.

He is responsible for reviewing his own documents, reporting and arranging research projects, processing data, and coordinating other people's affairs.

Memphis observed with some curiosity according to Shangri-La's reminder, and then found that things were just as Shangri-La said.

Although Yang Sikang was busy, he only listened to the general situation in terms of research, provided some opinions and his own knowledge, and did not involve detailed operations or detailed situations. Data processing basically means telling Bai Ze what needs to be processed, and then setting an estimated time for Bai Ze to submit a report at that time.

All of these will become simple document processing tasks, connected with the matters he is handling, and the coordination of matters only requires a general opinion, and he does not need to arrange them one by one.

Memphis suddenly realized that although his commander seemed to be busy with many unrelated things, in fact, these things were not much different in his hands. They were just arranged and communicated through different channels, thus presenting seemingly different appearances.

After understanding this, Memphis suddenly gained confidence and felt that he had grasped the key point of the problem. Next, he could truly demonstrate his ability as a secretary!

And then…three hours later, Memphis once again sat in his seat and doubted his life.