See I should totally have sent that e-mail that I intended to but couldn't get to word right.
1) I am very sorry that I added to this 2) I did not detect that you looked stressed 3) It genuinely was not intended in any way as a 'you fucked up' reminder. The panel set out an empty chair for you, called for comments from you and it was all very entertaining. 'Your' comment got a round of applause. Nobody criticised you during the panel and while there may have been people in the room cross that you did not appear the vast majority of us worked on the assumption that there is no way in heck you would not have been there if you could have avoided it (and would have given a 'How stupid can you be?' look to anyone who had criticised you). So the motivation behind those comments (at least the motivation behind mine and I am extrapolating out) was that we had genuinely enjoyed the panel and were sharing an 'in joke' with you, failing (monumentally) to appreciate that it was an in joke only to the people who were there and not to the person who was not. 4) I am very sorry.
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Date: 2015-04-23 10:27 am (UTC)1) I am very sorry that I added to this
2) I did not detect that you looked stressed
3) It genuinely was not intended in any way as a 'you fucked up' reminder. The panel set out an empty chair for you, called for comments from you and it was all very entertaining. 'Your' comment got a round of applause. Nobody criticised you during the panel and while there may have been people in the room cross that you did not appear the vast majority of us worked on the assumption that there is no way in heck you would not have been there if you could have avoided it (and would have given a 'How stupid can you be?' look to anyone who had criticised you). So the motivation behind those comments (at least the motivation behind mine and I am extrapolating out) was that we had genuinely enjoyed the panel and were sharing an 'in joke' with you, failing (monumentally) to appreciate that it was an in joke only to the people who were there and not to the person who was not.
4) I am very sorry.