imageTHREEThe Trip to the Dentist

Three months later, Pauline was in an unusually foul mood. She had never presented her thoughts on performance appraisals to her boss nor to anyone in HR, so, naturally, nothing had changed.

Worse yet, she was already two weeks overdue in preparing Percy’s evaluation. She had deliberately left his for last—an avoidance tactic, for certain. Fortunately, Percy’s sales performance had picked up nicely since their somewhat unpleasant conversation, so she didn’t really have anything important to say to him. But the annual appraisal had to be done—whether she liked it or not—and she knew it would be a stressful experience, ...

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