Exercise 9-1 What Are Your Expectations? This exercise will help you understand expectations and what they are based onif anything. Con- sider your current situation at work. As an employee, you're probably entitled to a stated number of vacation days. Your boss, however, mostly likely has something to say about when you actually use those vacation days, since he or she must keep the business operating smoothly and accom- modate the vacation-day requests of several subordinates. Let's suppose that you plan to ask your boss for a week off beginning July 2. Now, do the following: 1. Record your expectations of the boss's reaction to your request. 2. What facts or other evidence have led you to those expectations? 3. Will your boss raise one or more objections? If you think so, write down these expected objections. 4. If you expect objections, on what basis are you expecting them? 5. Finally, do you expect that your boss will accede to your request for that particular week off? Please write down the answer and explain why