“Just leave me alone and let me do my job,” said Manuel Gomez. Dumbfounded, Bill Brown, Manuel’s supervisor, decided to count to 10 and did not respond to Manuel’s comment. As he walked back to his office, Bill thought about how Manuel had changed over the past few months. He had been a hard worker and extremely cooperative when he started working for Bill two years earlier. The company had sent Manuel to two training schools and had received glowing reports about his performance in each of them.