In a concerted effort to eliminate any possibility of perceived resentment or antagonism, local account manager Jessica Koerper reportedly cycled through a variety of non-threatening voice inflections in her head Friday before vocalizing a concern to her manager. Why dont we move this to next week?shoot, thats too aggressive. If we move this to next week, would that be okay?I guess thats better, Koerper reportedly thought to herself as she ran through more than a dozen combinations of intonations, vocal pitches, syntactical changes, and patterns of stressed words in order to avoid, as much as possible, giving her boss the impression that shes actively working to undermine his authority and role within the company. Maybe Ill start off with the word Hi, but thats always tricky, because if its too casual he might think I dont take his authority seriously, and if its too forceful hell think Im being confrontational. I definitely dont want to come off as incompetent, so maybe Ill go into the stairwell real quick and practice saying some things out loud to iron out any pauses or hesitations. At press time, sources reported that Koerper had been perceived as a bitch. 