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Consideration

Examples of Consideration

• “My boss instituted a policy that unless absolutely neces-
sary, he does not want employees traveling on Sunday night or
getting home late on Friday night. This policy has meant a lot
to me and my family.”
• “I work as the administrative assistant for a group of totally
stressed out executives. Most of them call, e-mail, or stop by
frantic about needing something done right away. Mr. V. is dif-
ferent. He is always organized and gives me plenty of lead time
or asks me how much time I will need. When he does need
something rushed, he is always very respectful and apologizes
and says that he understands if I can’t get it done.”
• “At Thanksgiving, my company handed out complete turkey
dinners to all three hundred employees and their families!”
• “My son’s high school football team made the state playoffs.
When my family and I got to the game, I saw my boss and
several people from my office. I was totally blown away. My
boss had arranged it and after the game took everyone out for
pizza. It meant more to me than any raise or bonus I ever got.”
• “The economy has really hit our company hard. We’ve gone
through three rounds of cuts over the past eighteen months.
Everyone is scared and stressed. Throughout this process, our
department manager has been totally straightforward. She
hasn’t sugarcoated anything or made promises she can’t keep.
She always communicates with us and lets us know that we
can come talk to her anytime.”
• “At 4:00 on a Friday afternoon, a client called and said that
he needed me to immediately rerun a report that would take
three hours. I had plans to go away for the weekend with my
boyfriend and promised him that I would be out by 5:00. When

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