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surprise.  But if destiny intervened on this cold morning to give me a reprieve that I did not deserve, what happened next had me questioning both my sanity and Mr. Finnernan's.  I emailed the rest of the staff to let them know, but wanted to talk to you personally and thank you for your efforts.  Is he serious?   Your team went all out to get things together on time and you should be commended.   I should be executed, more appropriately.   I’m going to pass this along to the Vice President next chance I get.
    And apparently he did just that.  Ten days letter I received a letter of appreciation from our Home Office and with it, a $10,000 performance bonus.  Should I make even a token effort to set the record straight or do anything to correct this extreme injustice?  I decided that I would.  I called Joseph and told him the trip was all paid for.   
     

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You'll Be OK
    Shortly after we finished the seventh grade, Joseph announced that his parents were sending him to summer camp for three weeks in July.  He was very excited about it and when I saw the literature that his parents had, I could see why.  The place looked absolutel y amazing.  Mr. Klein was involved in some sort of dry good s importing business that must have paid handsomely because three weeks in this place was going to cost him.  The camp would “unleash your child’s spirit of adventure” according to the pamphlet we kept leafing through.  Joseph was anything but athletic, but he did like to swim.  The camp was on a lake and also had two large swimming pools complete with trained instructors.  It had everything else that you could imagine from arts and crafts to Zen meditation.   It was obvious to Joseph that I was very j ealous , who was sure that if we came up with a compelling enough case, we would be able to convince my parents that my s pirit of adventure could use some unleashing as well.
    One look at the place and my parents said no.  They could not afford to send me to overnight camp and besides, I had already signed up for Little League, our first practice scheduled for the very next Saturday.  I wasn’ t too sure about their m otivations and was not totally convinced that camp was beyond our means.  I suspected it had something to d o with the fact that Camp Tomahawk was a primarily a Jewish camp and my parents cringed a bit at the thought of the kosher meals, Sabbath observances, Hebrew songs and the rest.  Did they really want their 13 - year - old Protestant boy singing Shalom Aleichem at the Friday evening meal?
    I think Joseph may have been more disappointed than I was, and at some level I understood that he was afraid to go to camp alone.  And you really couldn't blame him for that; we were only 13 and neither of us had ever been away from home for more than a couple of nights.  Now he would be on his own for the seven hour bus ride to Chippewa Falls Wisconsin, where he would not know anyone and would be stuck way up there for three weeks sharing a bunk with eight to ten teenage boys who just might find Joseph an easy target to pick on.  Neither of us, never in a million years, would verbalize such fears, though it frightened me a little bit to think of it.  It will be great Joseph; you will have so much fun there , you'll be OK .  I know Clifford; I just wish you were going too.  The coach would kill me if I missed three weeks of the season; I'm the best outfielder on the team.  I didn't know for sure if he would like camp or not, be homesick or not either, but I knew this much for certain, I'd miss having him around for so much of our summer.
     
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    Flanders and Associates was very big on management training seminars.  They spen t enormous amounts of money sending people like me to these multi-day events, often in far away cities.  The topics span the range of areas that managers should presumably know something about ; t eam building, leadership, managing conflict, motivation, time