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ACT V, Scene I
CIRCLE THE WAGONS
“Do you have a minute?” asked Frank, peering into John’s office.
“Yes, sure, what’s up?” asked John, the vice president, putting
down his pen.
“I need to talk to you about Dave,” started Frank, entering the
office, closing the door and taking a seat. “I’ve been hearing a lot of
bad reports about him the past couple of months, and one of my
best analysts just asked to be transferred off Dave’s project team.”
“Transfer? That’s not good. You think Dave’s the issue?”
“Well, I know he is,” said Frank, exasperatedly. “One of my
guys came to me two nights back, after hours, to tell me what has
been going on.” John leaned forward, interested in what Frank
had to report. “He said that since the project started, over six
months ago, things have been getting steadily worse. Dave has