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The Pivotal Cup
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Be You
By Judith Burnett Schneider
If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
~Maya Angelou
“Meet me in the conference room with the Farber Company contracts,” my boss, Mr. Onerous, barked at me. “Ten minutes.” He scratched his scalp through disheveled, gray-brown curls that defied gravity. Then he disappeared behind the conference-room door. He looked more like one of my geeky chemistry professors than the top manager of sales for a four-star hotel.
At nineteen, I was employed for the summer, writing contracts for companies that spent mega-money booking week-long meetings complete with gourmet cuisine. I enjoyed the work and took my position of moderate responsibility seriously.
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