Remembering the Old Office

Joe and Samantha discuss how sales work has changed over the decades.

Remembering the Old Office

Listen and choose the right answer

What is Samantha looking at when the conversation starts?

• An old filing system in the archive room
• A brand new laptop in the conference room
• A stack of digital reports on her tablet

How does Joe describe the way they used to send price lists?

• They sent them instantly via email software.
• They used a fax machine and fed each page by hand.
• They gave them out during face-to-face lunches.

What does Samantha say about modern office methods?

• They make administration much slower.
• They allow the company to go paperless and save time.
• They create too much paperwork.

What happens at the very end of the dialogue?

• The power goes out in the entire office.
• Joe shows Samantha that their oldest client is still sending orders by fax.
• Samantha decides to throw away the old archive cabinets.

Listen again and complete the sentences

• Samantha: Joe, I'm looking at this old ____ in the archive room, and I honestly can't imagine how you managed everything on paper.
• Joe: Well, Samantha, back in the day we didn't rely on ____ for every single task.
• Samantha: Did you really use a ____ to send price lists to every single client in Boston?
• Samantha: That sounds exhausting compared to how we ____ cloud software instantly now.
• Samantha: I could never ____ waiting ten minutes just to send one simple order.

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