Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-pisces!partain From: partain@pisces.DEC (On a clear disk, you can seek forever.) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: and yet another.... Message-ID: <2533@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Jun-85 15:57:44 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.2533 Posted: Thu Jun 6 15:57:44 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Jun-85 01:26:21 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 97 SITUATION ADAPTABILITY EVALUATION FOR MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL This test has been designed to evaluate reactions of management to various situations. The situations are based on actual case studies from a well known educational institution and represent a cross section of test data correlated to evaluate both reaction time to difficult situations as well as the soundness of each decision selected. There are six multiple choice questions. Read each one thoroughly. Place an "X" by the answer you feel is most correctly justified by the circumstances given. Be prepared to justify your decision. You have four (4) minutes. 1. You have prepared a proposal for the regional director of purchasing for your largest customer. The success of this presentation will mean increasing sales to his company by 200%. In the middle of your proposal the customer leans over to laugh at your report and spits into your coffee. You: A. Tell him you prefer your coffee black. B. Ask to have him checked for communicable diseases. C. Take a leak in his "out" basket. 2. You are having lunch with a prospective customer talking about what could be your biggest deal of the year. During the conversation a blond walks into the restaurant and she is so stunning, you draw your companion's attention to her and give a vivid description of what you would do if you had her alone in your motel room. She walks over to the table and introduces herself as your client's daughter. Your next move is to: A. Ask her for her hand in marriage. B. Pretend you've forgotten how to speak english. C. Repeat the conversation to the daughter and just hope for the best. 3. You are making a sales presentation to a group of corporate exec- utives in the plushest office you've ever seen. The enchillada casserole and egg salad sandwich you had for lunch react, creating severe pressure. Your sphincter loses it's control and you break wind in a most convincing manner causing 3 water tumblers to shatter and a secretary to pass out. What you should do next is: A. Offer to come back next week when the smell has gone away. B. Point out their chief executive and accuse him of the offense. C. Challenge anyone in the room to do better. 4. You are a a business lunch when you are suddenly overcome with an uncontrollable desire to pick your nose. Rememberring this is a definite no no. You: A. Pretend to wave to someone across the room and with one fluid motion bury your finger in your nostril right up to the third joint. B. Get everyone drunk and organize a nose picking contest with a prize to the one who makes his nose bleed first. C. Drop your napkin on the floor and when you bend over to pick it up, blow your nose on your sock. 5. You have just spent the night with a supplier who invited you to an all night boiler maker drinking party. You get home just in time to go to work. You stagger to the men's room and spend the next half hour vomiting. As you are washing up at the sink, the sale's train- ing director walks up, blows his cigar smoke in your face, and asks you to join him for a drink after work. You: A. Look him staight in eye and launch one last convulsive torrent at the front of his expensive suit. B. Nail him right in the crotch, banking on the fact that he will never recognize your green face. C. Grasp his hand and pump it until he wets his pants. 6. You have just returned from a trip to Green Bay, Wisconsin in Jan- urary and tell your boss that nobody but whores and football play- ers lives there. He mentions that his wife is from Green Bay. You: A. Ask what position she played. B. Ask if she is still working the streets. C. Pretend you are suffering amnesia and don't remember your own name.