Your Boss Calls You on the Phone and Asks If

question 24

Multiple Choice

Your boss calls you on the phone and asks if he can have the report you're working on two days prior to the deadline. You were not expecting this question and you don't have a definitive answer on the spot. Which of the following would be your best reply?

• A) Let me get back to you on that.
• B) Sure, no problem. I can probably find some way to make it work.
• C) How am I supposed to finish my report on such short notice?
• D) I'll check my schedule to see if its doable and will call you back within half an hour.
• E) I wasn't expecting this, so it's really an impossible question to answer right now.

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