Even before I knew I was pregnant,he had said to me,“You can get your work done and leave on time.Just figure out what's important to you.Everything else follows from there.”But Dan was my real boss.You kept his hours.I couldn't postpone our talk much longer-I had to start wearing maternity dresses.Pushing aside the stack of paper,I got up.Just then,Dan's assistant dropped a memo off at my desk.We were supposed to run a new set of numbers on our report.“Have them sent to me by Monday”Dan wrote.
甚至在我知道有了身孕之前，他曾对我说过：“你可以把工作做完按时回家。弄清楚什么对你来说是重要的，其他的事可随其后。”可是，丹才是我的老板，你得遵从他的时间按排。我不能再推迟和丹之间的谈话了--我马上要穿孕妇服。我把那叠文件往旁边推了推，站起身来。就在此时，丹的助手在我桌子上放了一份备忘录。我们被要求在报告中将一组新的数字包括进去。“下周一交给我。”他写道。
I glanced at the clock.The mainframe computer was already shut down for the weekend.Making the changes by Monday meant doing them by hand on Saturday.I heard the angry voices of my teammates in Mike's office,so headed over.“It'll take at least eight hours to plug in those numbers,and the figures might not even be right”I said.Another analyst said“Dan did this just to make us work a Saturday…”“We don't need to”Mike said,smiling as he leaned back in his chair.“I'll run a program first thing Monday when the computer comes back up.And I'll explain things to Dan on Tuesday.The extra day means there won't be any mistakes.”
我看了一分钟。主机计算机已经关闭，因为是周末。周一前改好报告意味着要在周六用手工来做。此时，我听到迈克办公室中传出气愤的大声说话的声音，就走了过去。“要加进这些数字至少要用8小时，而且数字还不一定准确。”我说。另一位分析师说：“丹让我们干这个就是不让我们周六休息……”“我们不需要这样做，”迈克背靠椅子笑着说，“下周一，电脑一启动，我首先运行一个程序。周二我会对丹解释。多加一天可以保证不出任何差错。”
I had a terrible weekend.Mike probably played ball with his boys,but I barely slept.After this,how would Dan view my mater nity leave!
我过了一个糟糕的周末。迈克或许跟他的孩子们打球去了，可我却无法入睡。在此违抗上司命令事件之后，丹会如何看待我的产假呢？
Monday,Mike finished running the program before I came in.I checked the information for my division,skipping lunch to go over it all.I kept envisioning Dan exploding in anger the next morning.Tuesday,I arrived before the rest of the team.I poured a cup of coffee and sat in my cubicle.Dan stalked in.“Get in my office”he said without looking at me.“Now”I sat down across from him,sitting on my shaking hands.His eyes narrowed.“I wanted those reports yesterday so I could get my notes ready.If that meant working on a Saturday,that is normal at your level of responsibility.Instead,you deliberately disobeyed me.”
周一，迈克在我上班之前就运行了那个程序。我核校我的部门的有关数据，连中午饭都没有顾得上吃，一直坚持到干完。我一直想像着第二天早上丹盛怒的模样。周二，我比其他同事来得都早。我倒了一杯咖啡，在我的隔间坐下。丹高视阔步地走了过来。“到我办公室来一趟，”他正眼都不瞧我一眼，“马上过来！”我坐在他对面，颤料的手压在大腿下面。他眯起眼睛说：“我昨天需要那些报告，以使用来写我的发言提纲。如果那意味着你周六要干活的话，这是你责任分内的事，是正常的。相反，你却故意违抗。”