The Brunch Table

2/24/2004

Take a letter

Filed under: — Nick @ 12:20 am

I was watching North by Northwest last night; it opens with Cary Grant dictating a memo to his secretary as they walk side-by-side along a corridor. It took me a minute or so into the scene to realize that she was his subordinate, writing down whatever he said. I thought she was a colleague taking notes. Because why on earth would he need another human being’s help just to create and transmit a printed document?

  • fred

    You should ask the same thing of just about every lawyer in the U.S…some of whom dictate to their secretaries, OVER THE PHONE INTO VOICEMAIL, emails they want to send out.

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