She leaned in my direction, looked me in the eye, and uttered the fateful words that changed my life: "I'll pay you five dollars if you eat those peas.

她向我靠过来，盯着我的眼睛，说了一句改变我一生的话：“你吃掉那些豌豆的话，我就给你5美元。”

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So for me, if I'm a small business employer, and you've come into me, you shook my hand, looked me in the eye and said I will do this job for X, and then you come back the next day and complain about it, why would I ever want to work with you again?

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