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📖 Reading Literature: Exit Interview (Grade 12)

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Exit Interview

On my last day at the company, Human Resources gave me a form called an Exit Interview. Question 7 read: "What, if anything, would have made you stay?"

I thought of the promotion that went to the CEO’s nephew. The meetings that could have been emails. The open-plan office where I wore headphones with nothing playing, just to be left alone.

But the honest answer was smaller and stranger. Three years earlier, on my first week, a woman named Grace from Accounts had left a note on my desk: "The coffee on the third floor is better. Don’t tell anyone." I had laughed out loud. For a year we met there every morning. Then she left, and the coffee on the third floor tasted like everyone else’s.

I wrote: "More Graces." I suspect no one in HR understood. I suspect that was part of the problem.

1. What does Question 7 ask?
2. List the frustrations the narrator considers.
3. Why does the narrator write "More Graces"?
4. What does the last line imply about the company?
Theme: State the theme and explain how it develops over the text.
Answer key: 1) what would have made the narrator stay · 2) unfair promotion, pointless meetings, the open-plan office · 3) human connection and small kindnesses were what made the job bearable · 4) it doesn’t understand or value human connection, which is part of why people leave · Theme: Workplaces are sustained by human connection, which organizations often fail to see.
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Free Grade 12 English worksheet (Common Core RL.11-12.1): read "Exit Interview" and answer questions about key details, characters and theme. Skill: Key ideas and details in literature. Level: Grade 12 — also suits Year 13 (UK).

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