We are going to be spending a lot of time together, Michael, so I think we need to make the best of it." There was an underlying tone of parental condescension in Emma Nelson's voice as she spoke to her subordinate. Michael Bishop, who was sitting across from Nelson at the oversized conference table, shrugged his shoulders in a show of disinterest. "Okay. Whatever you say." "That's real encouraging," Nelson responded sarcastically. Bishop straightened up in his chair and faced Nelson squarely. "Emma, I'm just your assistant on this job. Once you give me some paper-shuffling assignments, I will immediately get to work on them. What more do you expect from me?" "I was expecting that you would have enough professional courtesy and respect to at least pretend to be interested in this audit." Frustrated and angry, Nelson shook her head in disgust. "You are an audit senior, too, you know." "Yeah, but you're the 'supervising' audit senior on this job, Emma. I'm just your flunky." Nelson and Bishop shared the same start date with their employer, a large Midwestern practice office of a Big Four accounting firm. But Nelson had been promoted to audit senior after only two years