“Certainly, sir. The job at Johnson & Mellon Inc. is very important to me. It's because of you that I got in.” I responded formally. I couldn’t afford to mess with the only job that was paying my bills.

“What's wrong with you?” he asked, almost irritated with my answer as though he was used to all his employees doling out the same format every day.

“I am sorry Sir, what do you mean?” I asked, confused by what he actually wanted to hear.

“What happened back there?” he implored softly.

For a moment I almost forgot what had happened. So I tried very hard to tell him what had...