Manager or Minion ?
In today's corporate environment there are many protocols, procedures
and colleagues to contend with. This short quiz is designed to sort out those who can go
home after an honest day's work from those who can go home after thinking that they have
done an honest day's work.........
1) It is 11:59, one minute before your lunch break and the
telephone rings. You recognise the number on the caller-display which means that the call
is going to take a long time to deal with. Do you.......
a) Ignore it and go
to lunch
b) Ask someone else
to answer it for you as you have someone else on the other line
c) Answer it and
grab a quick snack 25 minutes later
2) Your manager calls you over and asks whether you can stay
behind to cover for a sick employee. Do you .......
a) State that your
in-laws will be descending on your house like buzzards in approximately 2 hours' time
b) Suggest that your
colleague, who has been stood up at the last minute, would be more than willing
c) Immediately say
'Yes!' without any thought to ask for overtime
3) It is Friday lunchtime and everyone wants to go to the
pub. However, someone needs to wait for an important call from New York......... What do
you suggest ?.......
a) Get Security to
tell them that they got the time difference wrong when they phone back to complain
b) Divert the phone
to one of your colleague's mobiles and watch them suffer after 3 pints of 1664 !!
c) You don't drink
anyway so it would be a good idea to catch up on that report whilst you wait for the phone
to ring.
4) You have been asked to write a report on something that
you don't understand at all, what do you do ? .......
a) Answer in
fluent Serbo-Croat and claim that there are 24 keys missing on your keyboard
b) Find
someone who does ! (In today's corporate environment, knowledge can be bought for a fiver
!!!)
c) Rattle off
10 pages of rubbish - after all, you will have spent more time writing than it would take
for 3000 people to
read
it !
5) You want to take a holiday but your boss say's 'NO !' How do
you get round it ?
a) Point out
that there are 3 work-experience guys coming in to cover anyway
b) Revive an
recurring duodenal problem that you have had since childhood
c) Re-arrange
that break somewhere between Good Friday and Easter Monday next leap-year !
Okay, there are only five questions at the moment as it *does* take time to dream
these up !! If you have taken this seriously, then here are the scores........
Mostly A's : You are not quite a Manager but are
getting the gist of ducking and diving the responsibilities !
Mostly B's : You are excellent at delegating the
responsibility to those around you. (Until you retire anyway...then what do you do??
!)
Mostly C's : You are a minion without a doubt !
However, you work hard to keep those above you with their mortgages....you silly sod !!!!