Show afa el tact needed vind in order to secure good results by JOHN A NOCK before you corne como in here please said the general manager R sitting in the lie privacy of his inner office and now you may take the matter back and wait until I 1 send for you if be so ao good the general manager had been talking to ino inc for some time the door had biad 1 I suddenly a and nd t the fi e young inin inan acting as private secretary topped stepped in had crossed the room laid a batch barcli of p papers apers on his employer s desk and was vaa tiptoeing out again when lin lie had been called back there was something cutting in the alic well modulated tone of voice which the employer used the sting sling of it had been emphasized in fact by ilia intonation brooding breeding would not allow mo me to look at tile the young man but the figure which shaped itself in the lie corner corn 4 cr of my oyo as aa the young man inan tiptoed back for the papers showed me ilia how keenly the had stung him was that speech justified distinctly hotl moreover it hii was an all expression indicative of a bad business policy in tile man who had risen to the position of a generd manager for me ilia I 1 only saw tile mans limitations as an organizer org aniser 1 I should have been a little loss less certain of my investment hall had I 1 owned stock in his company no matter how that young man might have offended before in this manner the reprimand was oil out of all proportion to the ottense oTen sc taking it for granted that the young follow was at all worthy of the position lie he held field and if lio lie were unworthy of it why did lie hold it coming in no one could have been fioro considerate consider atil in tiptoeing across the room than was this messenger ines to me inc looking back upon this phase of the incident I 1 am ain sure flint alint tile the young mans actions showed that lie ho felt lie ho had intruded and wits was making every effort to lesson lessen its ita effect there was apology in every movement across the lie floor literally it was waa not an all interruption until ilie manager through liia bis rebuke made it BO 90 instead of talis managers embarrassing mo inc and outraging his employee as lie did bow enuch more effective it might have been lor for tile alio employer a moment after I 1 hall had gone if lie ho had culled called ilia his man in and asked that such interruptions cease if never before he had bad been forced to rebuke tile the man lie he could have mado made the request in the most considerate manner if it had occurred before lie could have laid whatever might have been deserved upon ilia of fonse the young man would have recognized any ally dese deserved arved form forin and degree of reprimand ilia his loyalty I 1 would have been strengthened by the fact that mis liis 1 employer ern by waiting had bad saved liim him undue embarrassment still more lie he could have had a chance to explain and gfrer apology |