测试:你在工作上是棵什么树?/填字游戏

Quiz：Are you deadwood at work? 测试：你在工作上是棵什么树？

1. A distressed client comes into the office seeking assistance with a complicated problem 10 minutes before your lunch break. You:

a) Glare menacingly at the client and emit a low snarling noise as you slowly and deliberately hang the 'Desk closed' sign over your computer

b) 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

c) Sit the client down, fetch them a cup of tea, and discuss it over a sandwich

2. You get up to get a cup of water, and notice that the water cooler is empty. You:

a) Scurry to the storage cupboard, lug back a refill bottle and struggle valiantly to replace it. 25 minutes later, there is water for all!

b) 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

c) Sigh. Lurk in the corridor till someone replaces it.

3. The office is doing a whip around for someone's leaving present. You:

a) You aren't there, who goes to work on Friday?

b) Hastily scrawl 'Happy Birthday' in the corner of the card and go back to sending your emails.

c) Volunteer to get the present, and hover eagerly over everyone's shoulder until they sign your handmade, carefully designed card.

4. Panic! The printer is jammed in the middle of printing an urgent document! What do you do?

a) 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

b) 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

c) You swear loudly about the lack of decent equipment in the place, and stroll off for a cigarette

5. It's a tea break. There's only one biscuit left. Everyone is looking at it and you decide to make your move. You:

a) Take it. You're hungry. It's a no brainer

b) 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.

c) Politely offer it around, silently hoping against hope that no one will take you up on your offer.

6. Half an hour to spare before you go home. What to do, what to do?

a) 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

b) You diligently set out to flood everyone else's inbox with pointless email. It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it

c) You haven't finished your work but you can't be bothered to go on. You read your horoscope, or fill out a quiz in a magazine

7. Your colleague is really snowed under with work and asks you for help. What do you do?

a) Sit very still and hope they go away

b) 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

c) Discuss the pros and cons of various approaches, pat your colleague on the arm and go back to your desk

8. 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?

a) Work tirelessly the whole day and night, neither eating nor sleeping, and collapse in a heap after it has been submitted

b) Crash the computer and go home. Your story is that you never received it in the first place

c) Take your time over the week and pretend you thought the deadline was for NEXT Tuesday

Points

1. a) 3 b) 2 c) 1

2. a) 1 b) 2 c) 3

3. a) 3 b) 2 c) 1

4. a) 2 b) 1 c) 3

5. a) 2 b) 3 c) 1

6. a) 1 b) 2 c) 3

7. a) 3 b) 1 c) 2

8. a) 1 b) 3 c) 2

Results

8-11

You are the office oak tree, dedicated, sturdy and dependable. Shunning trivial water cooler conversations, instead you focus your energies on perfecting the 3-minute lunch. The thought of leaving the office with work left undone gives you a nervous twitch.

12-17

Ah, you are the baobab. This African tree often fools people into thinking it is dead, when in fact it is stockpiling water in its trunk. You have untapped potential, working only as much as is needed and then sitting idle. Perhaps it would be wise to restock the photocopier from time to time instead of staring into space. You're starting to freak out the person sitting opposite you.

18-24

The Christmas tree. In the first flush of the job you were all baubles and tinsel, ideas and determination - quite frankly, a bit over the top. In the harsh light of January your true colours have emerged - your keyboard is dusty from misuse and as far as your co-workers are concerned you have "Out to lunch" permanently tattooed on your forehead.

Crossword Puzzle 填字游戏

Crossword Clues

ACROSS

1 Robbers, outlaws

4 A film with cowboys, opposite of "eastern"

8 To cook in an oven

10 A final demand

11 Vietnamese city

12 A mistake

13 A small road vehicle

14 Attempt

15 Soft hair of an animal

17 Time when the sun is out

18 A brief appearance in a film

20 Someone on horseback

23 Relating to a symphony

24 Different, additional

25 Concerning a whole group, an army rank

26 Nicer to eat

DOWN

1 Edge, especially of a country

2 The world-wide web

3 Leading group of the United Nations

4 News about sunshine, rain, etc.

5 A warm season

6 Christian holiday

7 Usually, ordinarily

9 A curved structure

13 Going across

16 International medical symbol

18 Not rare, widespread

19 Fabric made from Angora goat hair

21 Hurry

22 Extreme fear, a genre of films

Crossword Solution

Across

1 bandits

4 western

8 roast

10 ultimatum

11 Hanoi

12 error

13 car

14 try

15 fur

17 day

18 cameo

20 rider

23 symphonic

24 other

25 general

26 tastier

Down

1 border

2 internet

3 security council

4 weatherforcast

5 summer

6 Easter

7 normally

9 arch

13 crossing

16 redcross

18 common

19 mohair

21 rush

22 horror