'Do anything nice over Christmas?'
This time the assistant doesn't answer at all. She just stops typing, dead in the middle of a word, and stares at Quinn.
Quinn says, 'Did I ask you that already?'
'Twice,' the woman says. Exasperation and puzzlement. 'We already had that whole conversation. And we also already had the conversation where I told you you already asked me that and you apologised.'
'I'm sorry,' Quinn says.
'Yeah. That.'
'You think I have memory issues,' Quinn says.
'You think I've got no long-term memory, and if I stay in one place for too long I forget why I'm there.'
The assistant, Rowland, says, cautiously, 'I attributed it to stress.' Quinn smiles sympathetically and shakes her head. 'It's not stress. Do you think Mr Mahlo's going to be much longer?'
The assistant has turned back to her computer. 'This is the C-level. Meetings at this level take as long as they need to take, and you wait. Mr Mahlo will see you when he's ready.' She says this many times a day.
This time the assistant doesn't answer at all. She just stops typing, dead in the middle of a word, and stares at Quinn.
Quinn says, 'Did I ask you that already?'
'Twice,' the woman says. Exasperation and puzzlement. 'We already had that whole conversation. And we also already had the conversation where I told you you already asked me that and you apologised.'
'I'm sorry,' Quinn says.
'Yeah. That.'
'You think I have memory issues,' Quinn says.
'You think I've got no long-term memory, and if I stay in one place for too long I forget why I'm there.'
The assistant, Rowland, says, cautiously, 'I attributed it to stress.' Quinn smiles sympathetically and shakes her head. 'It's not stress. Do you think Mr Mahlo's going to be much longer?'
The assistant has turned back to her computer. 'This is the C-level. Meetings at this level take as long as they need to take, and you wait. Mr Mahlo will see you when he's ready.' She says this many times a day.
