Multiple choice questions.
1) You are arrested in a foreign country on the other side of the world, things look very grim. You get one email asking if you need help. It is from:
A) Your Distributor
B) Your Agent
C) Your Partner
D) An old friend you used to do business with 30 years ago in London
2) Your distributor, your main source of income on hearing of your troubles:
A) Wires you money for a lawyer
B) Calls the American Embassy to see if they can get you out of jail
C) Contacts Amnesty International
D) Invents a shit load of new charges and shorts your Royalties by thirteen thousand dollars.
3) It is your first morning in Jail you have to pay for your own food but the police told you not to have any money in Jail. Somebody shows up with food for you, it is:
A) A contact of your distributor
B) A contact of your Agent
C) Somebody from the American Embassy
D) The owner of the apartment building you were staying in.
4) It is a long holiday week-end, it looks like you are stuck in jail for at least 5 days until everybody goes back to work. Somebody turns up at the jail and contacts a lawyer, a personal friend of the arresting officer, on his day off to come to the jail and arrange bail for you. It is:
A) A contact of your distributor
B) A contact of your Agent
C) Somebody from the American Embassy
D) Barry from the British Consulate who does this every morning and helps all foreigners no matter what country they are from.
5) Your best friend and partner who is living 2 minutes away:
A) Comes to your rescue and bails you out of jail
B) Contacts a lawyer and sends him to the jail with bail money
C) Contacts all of your friends and warns them that they will need to send you money
D) Leaves the country the next day after having posting 2 days earlier on the webmaster boards that he needed a hotel room in the Philippines urgently, then vehemently denies through posts on websites that he was the guy who turned you in, he defines the term ’smear campaign’ on his blog for all of the world to see, yet nobody ever accuses him of anything.
6) You need thousands of dollars in cash at 3 am for bail or you will stay in jail for 3 months waiting for trial. The money is there in 20 minutes, you called:
A) Your Distributor
B) Your Agent
C) Somebody from the American Embassy
D) King Boom-Boom, the only friend you have who didn’t run away.
7) One local newspaper prints a totally fabricated news story that is complete lies. Lists equipment and sex toys that didn’t exist, insults you made to Buddha yet you are a Buddhist, describes extreme police charges but you haven’t yet been charged. This is the article that is posted world wide. It happened because:
A) You were an asshole and smart mouthed the press
B) They were offended by your crimes against the culture of the country
C) You are a foreigner and as such are fair game
D) Because the desktop of your computer had a picture of your wife and 4 year-old daughter on it and you refused to let them take pictures of it to publish in their newspaper.
8) You are out on bail but looking at potential jail time, people are posting information and ‘news’ on the porn chat sites, they:
A) Contact you to find out the truth
B) Rally to your support and wish you well understanding that the charge is owning a website and it could have happened to them
C) Worry that you were ‘ratted out’ by one of our own kind and realize it could happen to anybody who stands in his way of being the only webmaster in that country
D) Print horrible person attacks against you, accusing you of other crimes nothing to do whatsoever with the incident.
9) The word is that at some point you may be offered an opportunity to buy your way out of the situation but it is going to need a lot of money. You:
A) Contact your distributor, confident that as they are making lots of money on your product they will jump at the opportunity to help you out.
B) Contact your clients and ask them to advance you money against future business, confident that as they are making lots of money on your product they will jump at the opportunity to help you out.
C) Contact your agent, confident that as they are making lots of money on your product they will jump at the opportunity to help you out.
D) Realize that King Boom-Boom is the only friend you have in the world right now.
10) You now understand the true colors of the people around you and that the moment you are in trouble they will all rush to fuck you over, you resolve to:
A) Quit the business and buy a fast food franchise
B) Retire as you are getting on in years anyway
C) Write the story and name the names of each person that fucked you over
D) Exact retribution against each person at a place and time of your choosing.
ANSWERS:
#’s 1 through 9 are all D)
# 10 would be your choice