RANDOM REMINDER
BIZ QUIZ. As from today, people will start going back to work. The bronzed heroes of the beaches will resume their sober suits and return to their ledgers and the perennial problem of when the next rise is going to take place. It is for these people, in particular, that this column has devised a questionnaire which may help them to see further ahead, and Clan accordingly. Only y recognising himself will a man rise in station and stature: these questions, devised by a panel of experts, should be of considerable assistance, if they are answered faithfully. 1. If the boss comes in this morning snorting and pawing the carpet like an enraged buffalo.
will you (a) Hide beneath the desk (b) pretend you haven’t noticed him (c) tell him to calm down. 2. The chief accountant has acquired the habit of wearing a carnation in his button-hole, will you (a) Wear one too (b) tell him that a Beau Brummel appearance does nothing to cover incompetence (c) mock him by wearing a sprig of parsley. 3. There are office rumours that there has been pilfering of the biscuit fund. Do you (a) put the money back (b) take the biscuits (c) drop little innuendoes that you suspect the chief cashier. 4. The managing director has a new and highly attractive secretary. Would you think it best to (a) tell her that he
has two wives and 17 children (b) ask her out to dinner (c) tell the managing director that she has two husbands and 17 children. 5. You discover that your firm is installing a new electronic machine which will do the work of several clerks. Would you (a) bring an axe to work (b) offer to keep the working Darts oiled (c) resign MARKING. —Unfortunately it will not be possible to offer a system of assessing readers’ answers to these questions. This column had just got to that when the boss came in. snorting like an enraged buffalo (this column does not have a carpet). He asked some questions on his own behalf, and he did not seem to find the replies satisfactory.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29715, 8 January 1962, Page 16
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358RANDOM REMINDER Press, Volume CI, Issue 29715, 8 January 1962, Page 16
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