April 2007
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
3h 8m
English
Seated at her desk, Kayla was speaking to a client by phone but was unable to hear. Kayla’s cubical neighbors, who were having a lively discussion, drowned her client’s voice out. She wanted to ask them to lower their voices, but she hesitated. One of the women was known for her temper. Finally, though, Kayla grew tired of asking her client to repeat himself. So she turned to the women and politely asked them to keep the noise down. The short-fused coworker snapped back, “Well you didn’t lower your voice when I was talking on the phone the other day.”
Kayla, determined to keep things civil and get back to the client, said firmly, “You should have said something. I apologize for that. But for now I need ...
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