Assignment 2 - Elevator problem

1) Select one of the following scenarios, copy it to your page and then write a matching dialogue to go with it. Whatever your choice, try to bring the scenario to some sort of close in the actual dialogue. Target length: 250-500 words.

c) Two office workers who know but dislike each other are trapped in a lift/an elevator with a sales representative who they've never met before but who they're both immediately attracted to. Help is on its way.


O1: Well this is just great!
O2: This should be temporarily. Help should b on their way. The faster the better if you tell me.
O1: I hope it does. Being here with you against my will isn’t something anyone would look forward to.
S: Please stop it you two. If the situation wasn’t awkward enough as it is certainly not better listening to you pickering about. Try to keep the noise down, will you?
O1: Don’t worry. As long this idiot here doesn’t open his mouth it wouldn’t be any problem. It is as far as we know as we both know the reason the company performance is underachieving.
O2: Oh, look who is talking. The big boss little lackey telling everyone else it is their fault that the company underperforms. You know what, if it wasn’t for the cretins at the top that have no idea how it is to work at lower didn’t always look for a quick profit we wouldn’t be in this mess to begin with. I mean, you can’t fire a quarter of the workforce and hope to achieve the same productivity as before.
S: Heh, the plebs never knew what hit them!
O1: Good one! This quarter was something that had to be removed to make the company more efficient. Why do you bother about the plebs anyway? Do you in any way feel connected with in any way?
O2: Well some of us aren’t born with a silver spoon from birth. Most of us really most work harder than others to actually achieve anything. But I doubt anyone of you know anything about that. At least the elevator seems to work again.
S: Not a moment too late.


2) Create and briefly describe a scenario of your own (involving 2-4 characters) and then write a matching dialogue to go with it. As with the task above, try to bring your scenario to some sort of close in the actual dialogue. Target length (including scenario description): 350-750 words.

The two elevator office persons from the elevator are going to a meeting and on th way the meet a third office worker. They walk along towards the meeting. Here it is the Office person 1 and 2 and another office person from another part of the company, Office person 3.


O3: Hi there! It was a long time to see you both? Are finished with you project as planned?
O1: No really! But I got it in my briefcase with me here. I am sure we can all go through it at the meeting room and look what more needs to be done.
O2: Well, we know who we could blame for that. With a quarter of the company lay off.
O3: Yes! I heard about that. My department wasn’t as affected as yours directly but we can still see how it hurt the whole company as such. There have been many delays since. Often we can wait four hours if not for days they get new working orders.
O2: I see.
O1: And then again we do have some lazy bums that never do what they are supposed to do. Instead we have to watch over them that they are not surfing the net or time wasting stuff like that. It really drains on the resources.
O2: And you suppose we should what exactly. We can’t do more work than there is. I hope you see the logic fallacy about doing work on nothing. Or then again, it is you we are talking about.
O3: Let me see? Despite all the layoffs there are still too little work to be done? How is that even possible?
O2: It is possible because other departments in the company were also affected. This in turn resulted in what you can see now. Nothing seems to be done at all.
O1: Well, it is always going to get some time to adjust. It is the nature of it all. Just wait and see. In couple of weeks everything should be back to normal.
O2: It sure has taken it’s time alright. It already went two months and still nothing seems to be gone for the better.
O1: Let me open the door for you.
O3: Ok. Let’s take a seat here and wait till the meeting begins.


3) Create a scenario of your own (involving 2-4 characters) without describing it and then convert it into a self-contained dialogue of no more than 500 words. Our job as your readers will be to work out as much as we can about the scenario and the characters involved from the dialogue alone.


O1: So if few look at this graph here we can see that the stock index has raised yet again the last couple of months. And with this speed of recovery we would b able to expand by next two-three years. And the future prospects may also include tha…
O2: May I ask something?
O1: Could it wait until after the briefing?
CEO: Let’s hear him.
O2: You said that we have increased or stock value but the overall productivity have decreased since the last layoff. How is this possible?
CEO: By cutting off extensive costs everything is possible in short term aspects. And that is all that counts here. But the long term effects should come soon as well. It is all about streamlining the processes.
O2: That explains a lot.
O1: So where was I?
CEO: About future prospects.
O1: Yes. In the future we can expect to see even more grandeur projects. And this dam project of the Nile we would be able to produce enough electricity for the whole African continent. The profit for such a dam once finished would be tremendous.
O2: Wouldn’t the farmers object?
CEO: What farmers?
O2: Those who work the Nile delta? Or it doesn’t matter either?
O1: Honestly, I am getting tired of you. Why o you work here at all? If you want to do moral preaching there are other places to go. Not here.
O2: Hey, maybe I should. I never liked working here anyway. Do you even know how ridiculous this meeting is when half the company has no tasks to do anymore? Half the time is spent on waiting on new assignments. Well, you are right. I am leaving.
CEO: I think the dam looks like a good idea. And Mike stop by my office before you go. I can’t tolerate these outbursts on meetings.
O1: So we are going to take a short break then? Ten minutes?