A Day at Work
A: "What do you mean you don't know how to do it?"
B: "Well, What I mean is, I do not know how to do it. Which is to say, as it relates to the technique or process involved in the completing - the ‘getting done' - of that result which you speak, I do not know how to do it."
A: "But, you told me you knew how to do it . . ."
B: "No, I didn't."
A: "When we hired you, you told us . . . on your resume, you said . . ."
B: "I said what? do you think I said?"
A: "In the interview, in your previous positions, you have experience in this, on your resume."
B: "I have experience with other people doing it."
A: "In your interview, you told me . . ."
B: "That I don't know how."
A: "That you did!"
B: "Did what?"
A: "Know!"
B: "Did not."
A: "You told me you did know."
B: "I told you I did not."
A: "Extensively! You said you were involved in it extensively!"
B: "Oh No."
A: "Oh yes; extensively, yes."
B: "Ostensibly."
A: "What?"
B: "I said I was involved in it ostensibly. Ostensible was my involvement."
A: "What."
B: "I wasn't . . ."
A: "What?"
B: "involved, hardly at all."
A: "Your resume."
B: "Exactly."
A: "What?"
B: "I was there, it is on my resume, that I was there."
A: "That you were there?"
B: "So it seems."
A: "So you don't"
B: "No."
A: "I see."
B: "Okay."