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ОглавлениеSCENE: Office with desk and several chairs. Brian sits working at desk. Enter Alf brandishing a letter.
ALF: Brian, have you seen this letter?
BRIAN: What letter?
ALF: The old man himself has written to me.
BRIAN: To you? You’re kidding.
ALF: In five years I’ve never received a letter from ‘on high’.
BRIAN: It must be a mistake.
ALF: No, no. I’ve been invited to a conference.
BRIAN: You? To a conference?
ALF: A conference for high potential managers.
BRIAN: Then it’s definitely a mistake.
ALF: Why?
BRIAN: (snatching letter and reading) Give it to me. ‘Dear Colleagues’. This is not addressed to you! Nowhere does it say ‘Dear Alfred’ or ‘Mr Adler’.
ALF: My name is on the envelope.
BRIAN: But the letter is not addressed to you personally.
ALF: (retrievingletter) Give it back. (Reads)“Congratulations, you have been selected from a large number of candidates to attend the Advanced Management Conference…”
BRIAN: Why ‘advanced’? How can management be ‘advanced’?
ALF: Perhaps it’s for junior managers like me who want to be…
BRIAN: Senior managers?
ALF: Well, I don’t want to be a junior manager forever.
BRIAN: You’re not a junior manager. You’re a clerk who tells other clerks what to do.
ALF: But that’s important.
BRIAN: Our managers make it difficult for people to do their jobs. Is that important?
ALF: (shakes his head and returns to letter) “The conference will run for five challenging days when you will be educated in the latest theories of management.”