FORUM FUN FEATURE!! Adaptability Evaluation

[Bumper]

Here's a test I was given at a seminar I once attended. I apologize up front for the fact that I've misplaced the correct answers, so you'll just have to use your imaginations.

SITUATION ADAPTABILITY EVALUATION

For Management Personnel

This test has been designed to aid in evaluating the reactions of management personnel to various situations. These scenarios are based on actual case studies, assembled by a well known educational institution. They represent a cross section of test data correlated to evaluate a subject’s ability to deal quickly with high pressure situations. They also provide a method of analyzing the soundness of decisions arrived at under stress.

There are eight (8) multiple choice questions. Read each thoroughly. Place an “X” next to the answer you feel is most appropriate, given the circumstances described. Be prepared to justify your decisions.


You have four (4) minutes.


Do not open the booklet until told to do so.




Name:________________
Title:_________________
Location:______________
Date:_________________


1) You have prepared a proposal for your largest customer’s regional director of purchasing. The success of this presentation will mean increasing your sales to his company by over 200%. In the middle of your proposal, the client leans forward to look at your report and spits in your coffee. You:
a) Tell him you prefer your coffee black.
b) Ask that he undergo A.I.D.S. screening.
c) Take a leak in his “Out” basket.

2) You are having lunch with a prospective client, talking about what could be the largest supply contract in your company’s history. During the conversation, a blond walks into the restaurant and so totally captivates you that you draw your companion’s attention to her and proceed to tell him, at great length, and in graphic detail, what you would like to do to her if you had her alone in your motel room. She walks over to your table and introduces herself as your prospective customer’s daughter. Your next move is to:
a) Ask for her hand in marriage.
b) Repeat your comments to the daughter and hope for the best.
c) Pretend you’ve forgotten how to speak English.

3) You are making a sales presentation to a group of corporate executives in the plushest office you’ve ever seen. Last night’s hot enchilada casserole dinner reacts negatively with the egg salad sandwich you had for lunch today, and creates enormous gastric pressure. Your sphincter finally loses its control and you break wind in a most convincing manner, causing three water glasses to shatter, the carpet to curl up in the corners, and a secretary to collapse in a dead faint. Next, you should:
a) Offer to come back next week, after the stench has cleared.
b) Point at their chief executive and accuse him of the offence.
c) Challenge anyone in the room to do better.

4) You are at a business luncheon when you are suddenly overcome by the uncontrollable urge to pick your nose. Realizing this activity is generally frowned upon in polite company, you:
a) Pretend to wave to a celebrity across the room, and when everyone turns to look, in one fluid motion, bury your forefinger in your nostril right up to the third knuckle.
b) Get everyone drunk and organize a nose picking contest with a prize going to the first one who can make their nose bleed.
c) Drop your napkin on the floor and, when you bend over to pick it up, blow your nose on your sock.


5) You’ve just spent the evening with a supplier who invited you to an all night Tequila Shooter drinking party. You get home just in time to go to work. You stagger to the men’s room in a haze and spend the next 45 minutes barfing your guts out. As you’re washing up at the sink, the Branch Manager walks up to you, blows his halitosis and cigar smoke in your face, and asks you to join him for a few drinks after work. You:
a) Look him straight in the eye and launch one last convulsive torrent at the front of his Brooks Brothers suit.
b) Nail him right in the crotch, with your knee, and make your escape, banking on the fact that he’ll never recognize your green face.
c) Grasp his hand and pump it till he pees his pants.

6) You are at dinner with a customer and his wife, who looks like the regional winner in the Godzilla look-a-like contest. Half way through dinner, you feel a hand in your lap. You should:
a) Accidentally spill hot coffee in your crotch.
b) Slip a note to the waiter to have your customer paged, and see if the hand goes away when he does.
c) Excuse yourself and go to the men’s room. If he follows, don’t come out until you have a signed purchase order.

7) You’re on your way to see your best customer when your zipper breaks and you discover you’ve forgotten to put on any underwear that morning. You decide to:
a) Call on the customer’s secretary instead.
b) Explain you were just trolling for gays.
c) Buy a baggy raincoat and head for the schoolyard.

8) You’ve just returned from a trip to Green Bay, Wisconsin. You tell your boss nobody but football players and hookers live there. He mentions his wife is from Green Bay. You:
a) Ask what position she played.
b) Ask if she has found herself a busy corner.
c) Pretend you’re suffering from amnesia and can’t remember your own name.

[tommy]

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b
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D none of the above
a

[TAPPY]

Did you tell us to open the book yet ????

[jtm1631]

Not your best work Bumper, but you have to love any test that uses the word sphincter.

JT

[Critter]

Originally Posted by TAPPY

Did you tell us to open the book yet ????

Tappy once again goes to the front of the class. I will sit down behind her.

[Bumper]

Originally Posted by Critter

Tappy once again goes to the front of the class. I will sit down behind her.

I always tried to avoid the front of the class. When you sat up there it was always too obvious when you bent over to check under the desk for those second-hand, but still viable, Juicy Fruits. (In this case, "PC" did not refer to "politically correct", but "previously chewed".)

[Sue]

Never was keen on PC gum found under desks (the possibility of finding boogers was too big), though I had no problem taking ABC (Already Been Chewed) gum directly from a friend's mouth.

[TAPPY]

Sue...your are grossing me out (Boogers !!!!) - ugh !!!!
Never ever did the ABC gum thing....
Critter - I always have to sit behind some one in case I need to peek at their answers

I think I will go over to the waxing post now !!!!

Bump - you gonna give us the answers ?????

[Critter]

Tappy that is why I am sitting behind you the smart kid in the class.

[TAPPY]

Critter dont peek an my answers unless you know I am peeking at some one elses !!!
(I think I said that right) -