Finally Debbie enters the room in a bluster of apologies. Sheryl looks at her accusingly and says, “You weren’t at the traffic lights.” “Sorry, traffic was a nightmare. I’d just come off the highway…” Sheryl cuts her off and, in front of her colleagues, gives her a dressing down about blaming the traffic rather than accepting responsibility for not anticipating traffic. She asks how many times she’s driven this particular road, why she hadn’t considered the needs of her coworkers in deciding when to leave her house, what time might have been more appropriate to set off from San Francisco to
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