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Question: You are a partner in a large and powerful law firm. You are working on a word document for a meeting in the afternoon. You accidentally close the document without saving changes. Do you:
a) calmly call Tech Support and try to solve the problem
b) fix it yourself with your in depth computer knowledge from years of working on a computer
c) stamp your foot, call your secretary in a whiny voice and petulantly say 'what do i dooooooo'
Question: When your secretary tries to help you with the above-mentioned problem by coming into your office and saying 'what's the matter', do you
a) rationally explain your actions and not touch the keyboard any more
b) say 'it's ok, i'm sorry for interrupting your personal phone call. I can fix this by myself
c) say 'i pressed the wrong button...look...all my work is lost' and then bang the keyboard with your hand in a vain attempt to express your frustration with the world.
Question: Once you bang your hand on the keyboard, the dialogue box pops up and says 'would you like to keep a local copy of the document'. You:
a) calmly and politely ask your secretary what this means
b) realise that all your work is actually recoverable
c) move your mouse around pointlessly and say to your secretary in a martyred fashion 'i'm going to have to do all this again. why is it doing this? stupid computer. it's a bloody pain. god i don't have the time for this shit'
Question: When your secretary suggests you call tech services because she knows that they can recover the amended document do you:
a) say 'good idea' and thank her
b) say 'ok' and calmly pick up the phone to call them
c) say 'oh god i don't have the time for this' and then lean over, BANG out the extentsion number, put it on speakerphone so EVERYONE can hear you and the minute the tech services guy answers say 'log in and help me'
If you answered a) then you aren't a real lawyer
If you answered b) then you are only an articled clerk
If you answered c) then congratulations, you are a partner.
a) calmly call Tech Support and try to solve the problem
b) fix it yourself with your in depth computer knowledge from years of working on a computer
c) stamp your foot, call your secretary in a whiny voice and petulantly say 'what do i dooooooo'
Question: When your secretary tries to help you with the above-mentioned problem by coming into your office and saying 'what's the matter', do you
a) rationally explain your actions and not touch the keyboard any more
b) say 'it's ok, i'm sorry for interrupting your personal phone call. I can fix this by myself
c) say 'i pressed the wrong button...look...all my work is lost' and then bang the keyboard with your hand in a vain attempt to express your frustration with the world.
Question: Once you bang your hand on the keyboard, the dialogue box pops up and says 'would you like to keep a local copy of the document'. You:
a) calmly and politely ask your secretary what this means
b) realise that all your work is actually recoverable
c) move your mouse around pointlessly and say to your secretary in a martyred fashion 'i'm going to have to do all this again. why is it doing this? stupid computer. it's a bloody pain. god i don't have the time for this shit'
Question: When your secretary suggests you call tech services because she knows that they can recover the amended document do you:
a) say 'good idea' and thank her
b) say 'ok' and calmly pick up the phone to call them
c) say 'oh god i don't have the time for this' and then lean over, BANG out the extentsion number, put it on speakerphone so EVERYONE can hear you and the minute the tech services guy answers say 'log in and help me'
If you answered a) then you aren't a real lawyer
If you answered b) then you are only an articled clerk
If you answered c) then congratulations, you are a partner.
posted by belle de dayjob at 3:43 am
3 Comments:
oooh, i read this and felt the same combination of stunned amusement and shuddering recognition i get from watching david brent in full flight. sounds like you could add "child care skills" to your resume, belle de dayjob.
and i quite agree that we should add twister to the game on, gnolls roster...
heh. I wish someone as cute as Tim from The Office worked here. Child care skills? Hardly. Last time I babysat, the three year old climbed on the roof and I sent his 8 yr old brother up there to get him down.
well
it would appear that you have a more than healthy contempt for children, and furthermore, senior partners also appear to fall effortlessly into this catagory.
i'm not paid to get bored, but you seem to have jolly good fun with it one way or another...
might i suggest a medicinal Rum.
xx Dr. Groucho
p.s. if i was drunk, i could probably read the word verification nonsense perfectly on the anonymous setting...
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