ABSTRACT

“I quit!” Robert bellowed, as he threw his ID badge onto Jeffrey’s desk. “No, you’re fired!” Jeffrey shouted back. “Robert, you are impossible! You don’t listen to what I tell you. You show no respect…you didn’t even knock, you just barged in!” After a short moment of silence, Robert drew a deep breath and said in a slightly calmer voice: “Look Jeffrey, that’s the way people work around here. This isn’t Singapore. If you can’t deal with me, good luck finding another German operations manager you will be able to get along with. I’m not impossible, I just don’t like being commanded by someone who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”