A distressed client comes into the office seeking assistance with a complicated problem 10 minutes before your lunch break. You:
Sit the client down, listen attentively, then excuse yourself 'for a minute' and hope they are gone by the time you get back from lunch
Sit the client down, fetch them a cup of tea, and discuss it over a halved sandwich
Glare menacingly at the client and emit a low snarling noise as you slowly and deliberately hang the 'Desk closed' sign over your computer
You get up to get a cup of water, and notice that the water cooler is empty. You:
Scurry to the storage cupboard, lug back a refill bottle and struggle valiantly to replace it. 25 minutes later, there is water for all!
Try as hard as you can to get what little water is available out of the water cooler. Then stroll over to the storage cupboard, but lose interest on the way back, leaving the bottle strategically in the corridor
Sigh. Lurk in the corridor till someone replaces it.
The office is doing a whip around for someone's leaving present. You:
Volunteer to get the present, and hover eagerly over everyone's shoulder until they sign your handmade, carefully designed card.
You aren't there, who goes to work on Friday?
Hastily scrawl 'Happy Birthday' in the corner of the card and go back to sending your emails.
At a team building camp for work you are most likely to be:
Waiting for someone to coordinate the next event. The fact that you are sitting on the clipboard is neither here nor there
Monopolising the megaphone and organising loads of games and activities.
On the beach. You did not come all the way to Brighton to tie knots in a rope
Panic! The printer is jammed in the middle of printing an urgent document! What do you do?
Oh no. After prodding it tentatively and tugging gingerly at a few sheets of paper, you hover beside it with a worried expression on your face, beseeching a passer-by to come to your aid
You swear loudly about the lack of decent equipment in the place, and stroll off for a cigarette
This is a breeze for you because you read the printer manual ages ago ... in fact you installed it, and clean it from time to time, so you fix the problem and soon all is right with the world
It's a tea break. There's only one biscuit left. Everyone is looking at it and you decide to make your move. You:
Take it. You're hungry. It's a no brainer
Offer the biscuit to the shy intern in the corner. You can afford to be generous; after all, the other two biscuit tins are stashed under your desk.
Politely offer it around, silently hoping against hope that no one will take you up on your offer.
Half an hour to spare before you go home. What to do, what to do?
You haven't finished your work but you can't be bothered to go on. You read your horoscope
You eagerly crack open tomorrow's tasks, and get so stuck in that you end up staying till midnight and start worrying about what you'll find to do tomorrow
You diligently set out to flood everyone else's inbox with spam mail. It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it
Your colleague is really snowed under with work and asks you for help. What do you do?
Sit very still and hope they go away
Pull up a chair and start telling them what to do. Eventually, you get so frustrated with their work that you shove them aside and finish the task by yourself
Discuss the pros and cons of various approaches, pat your colleague on the arm and go back to your desk
While reviewing a major project you notice a serious error that will require the whole thing to be redone. It's due tomorrow so what do you do?
Work tirelessly the whole day and night, neither eating nor sleeping, and collapse in a heap after it has been submitted
Crash the computer and go home. Your story is that you never received it in the first place
Take your time over the week and pretend you thought the deadline was for NEXT Tuesday
Someone keeps parking illegally in the disabled parking space. After a week of this you decide to take action. What do you do?
Send an email around the office, and regularly make canteen announcements threatening to name and shame the offender
Move your car. Someone keeps making loud announcements during lunch and it's disrupting your meals
Stick a notice under the windshield wiper of the car asking the person to move it; and then accidentally break it off. Probably serves them right
