Please Be Gentle With Me Mr Grant

Though she hesitated for a moment, Blanca finally found the strength to knock on Anna’s door. Soon words came from inside the office, “Come in.”

Blanca took a deep breath and went in. She put the paper printed last night on the desk and said with a rather deferential smile, “This is the file you asked me to print out yesterday, Anna.” She stood quietly, like an obedient child.

“OK. I see.” Anna said. Then she continued to go over some files. For a while, she noticed that Blanca was still standing in front of her. She looked up and asked, “Anything else?”

Blanca was nervous and could feel her palms sweat. She told herself that Anna, unlike any of her previous bosses, was a good leader, and the Empire Group was a fair and just company. She took a deep breath, and put a genuine smile on her face. “I’ve finished the work. I think about what you said yesterday carefully and I think you are right. So, let me know if there’s anything I can do.”

Anna was a little surprised that Blanca was offering to do extra work. She looked at Blanca with admiration and said, “Oh, there will be a meeting later. You can take notes for it.”

Blanca said, her eyes

can do it!” The thought was so irrepressibly uplifting that she tweeted her excitement. Before long, her content gained

lunch, Isabel came over and pointed to the door.

is that?” Blanca looked in the direction of Isabel

murmuring filled the office. When Blanca got near, he said, “The Chairman want to go out to lunch with

out? But he doesn’t like eating in restaurants,” asked

for the Chairman’s lunch and I was told to