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Subject:RE: OT: Re: Are you a "Mental Gymnast"? From:Tammy VanBoening <Tammy -dot- VanBoening -at- netRegulus -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:11:19 -0700
Lots of smart writers/information specialist/communication gods/whatever we
are calling ourselves out on this list.
I/we just thought this was a really out there/stretching it question to ask.
So, if your writing samples were really lousy but you got the answer right,
you got hired anyway? Sometimes, I just don't get job interviews!!!
Sorry, fresh out of the Ginsu knives to give to the winners! :-
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Strasser [mailto:paul -dot- strasser -at- windsor-tech -dot- com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 10:04 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: OT: Re: Are you a "Mental Gymnast"?
>
>
>
> >
> > You are driving on a dark, rainy, stormy night and as you
> drive by a bus
> > stop you notice three people - an elderly woman who needs to go the
> hospital
> > immediately, an old friend you once saved your life
> (literally) and the
> love
> > of your life - the person for whom you have always been
> waiting. Your car,
> > however, can hold only one other person. What do you do?
>
> I give the keys to the old friend and ask him to drive the
> elderly woman to
> the hospital, and ask him to come back with a bigger car.
> Then I'd get to
> know the love of my life a little better - the heck with the rain.
>
> >
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