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INT: OFFICE. MARY AND WENDY ARE SAT OPPOSITE EACH OTHER AT A DESK.

MARY: We've got your test results back, and did very well in the 'Reciting Random Facts' section.

WENDY: Well a R-11M Scud Missile had a maximum range of 270 kilometres.

MARY: Quite. You also topped the scoreboards in 'Ability to make your colleagues feel intellectually inferior'

WENDY: <SARCASTIC> Reeeeeeeeally? I'm sooooo surprised.

MARY: Unfortunately, you got 100 percent for 'Common Sense'.

WENDY: But 100 percent is good isn't it?

MARY: You'd have thought so, but for the Trainee Management Scheme you need to have scored in the top 10 bottom percentile.

WENDY: Isn't there something you can do to lower it? Some training perhaps...

MARY: We do have some e-learning, but Common Sense is impossible to learn.

WENDY: Surely there must be some role plays I could do? What about a team building exercise?

MARY: I'm sorry, no.

WENDY: A Pie Chart, or an Anagram.

MARY: Not really.

WENDY: A Vision Statement, or a Mystery Shopper?

MARY: No, but there is a position we think you'll be perfect for. Director of Human Resources. Could you start right away?

WENDY: What are the Maternity Benefits?

My first impression is that it feels like an in-joke against a work colleague. I think you need to make it more universal. I liked the random facts stuff and would like to see you deconstruct the minutae of office relations more.

Quote: chipolata @ September 16 2010, 11:16 PM BST

My first impression is that it feels like an in-joke against a work colleague.

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Was it that obvious?

Thanks for the feedback.

There is a sketch in there, but you need to deconstruct it and work out exactly what the premise is. At the moment it feels a bit scattergun.