Do the Job Manually

“Threaten to come back and do it for him. He’ll hate that.”

The cataloger was clearly at his wit’s end. “I need your help. I want you to call and threaten my data processing manager.”

“What’s he doing?”

“He won’t give me my year-end sales reports on time. I can’t wait any longer. I need them to plan next year’s circulation. Tell him I’ve hired you to come back and replace him. He’ll hate that.”