ONE
OF THOSE DAYS IN NOVEMBER
SITUATION:
You have worked really hard at your job, putting in
overtime and assuming additional responsibilities. Your willingness to work and
your dedication to your job is not reflected in your pay. When your boss wants
to lecture on responsibility, he will call you and another higher-paid, nail-polishing, checkbook balancing, early-leaving employee into his
office and say he depends on the two of you to cover all bases. For your
response choose one of the following:
A. You pick up the marble dolphin and bludgeon him
to death, knowing the severest charge they might convict you on is
involuntary manslaughter.
B.
You thank your boss graciously for enlightening
you on professional ethics and responsibilities, and throw yourself into your
job with renewed vigor, hoping to prove yourself capable.
C.
You speak casually of sex, drugs, and rock and
roll.
D.
You develop a headache, go home, work on your
resume, and drop by the local Wal-mart for a supply of fingernail polish.
2 comments:
Man, I love answer A. although D. is probably more true to what I'd actually do.
I'll go for the non sequitur....C please!
However, I would add E. Begin making a point to find ways to encourage the other better paid employee to engage by suddenly forgetting how to do everything and asking her as often as possible how to do your job again because you know she's so much better at it....
"How do you do that again? My stars, I just don't think I'm doing it right (or well enough(!
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