名著阅读之心灵鸡汤精选 Putting My Tail Between My Legs 学案-高三英语二轮复习培优.docxVIP

高三英语培优·名著阅读之心灵鸡汤精选 Putting My Tail Between My Legs 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 心灵鸡汤精选Putting My Tail Between My Legs 话题归类 阅读难度 词数 请求原谅 五星 1189 【文章梗概】作者工作中，得知财务处迟迟没有给供应商付款，作者很生气，给财务处打电话，直接向接线员发火。挂完电话作者认识到自己失态了，感觉很内疚，没有办法集中注意力于工作。最后决定向接线员打电话道歉。 An apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck I was having a bad day at work. A really bad day. We all have them, but this was an especially awful day because I got a call from a vendor who had done some work for me months earlier. She should have been paid already by our central finance office, and when I learned that she had not, I was mortified and embarrassed. Our finance office had a reputation for slow payments, and I went ballistic. I called the finance office and launched into a tirade the moment someone answered the phone. Even while I was screaming at the poor woman, I knew I was out of line, but for some reason I couldn’t help myself. I had never done that in a professional setting before. I knew plenty of people who acted like that and I had always looked down on them. And here I was doing it! Before I slammed down the phone, I told the woman to make sure my vendor got paid immediately or I was going to march over to their office and really make a stink. I don’t recall the woman saying one word back to me. No sooner had I hung up the phone than remorse set in. What had gotten into me? I’m a nice person; people like being around me. And I’d never treated anyone like that. It was as though the devil took over my soul and turned me into an instant ogre. It wasn’t like this was some huge gaffe either; the non-payment was a pretty minor issue. My reaction was completely uncalled for and I knew it. The next day, I was scheduled to work from home because I had a lot to do and needed a quiet environment to get the work done. But try as I might, all I did was stare at my computer screen. I kept thinking about that poor woman whom I tore to