Office Conversations
- Do you receive many enquiries about your product?
- Yes. There are a good number every day.
- You can’t answer all of them personally, can you?
- No. Unless they’re obviously important, we send back a formal letter.
- What did you spend all your time on today?
- Checking the annual report.
- Was everything in it all right?
- No. I discovered several errors.
- How is the mail handled?
- The executive secretary opens it and sorts it out.
- Is any record kept of incoming mail?
- Yes. Everything is entered in the mail register.
- I’d like to dictate a letter to the Reliance Company.
- Just a moment please, while I get my shorthand notepad.
- Would you also bring me the previous correspondence with them?
- I’ve already placed the file on your desk.
