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TURN THE TABLES ON A BULLY WITH ONE EASY MOVE

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face…. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.—ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

“YOU SURE SCREWED UP,” Wayne snarled.

Marie’s stomach plummeted, as all eyes turned to her. She braced herself for what was coming. Wayne had given her an impossible assignment, to make a penny-pinching client, who wanted Mercedes results without paying for them, happy. She’d worked days, nights, and weekends, but in the end the client had taken the templates Marie created and refused to pay, saying he’d expected more.

What could she say? If she said no one could have succeeded on the project, she’d sound defensive. ...

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