A soldier was asked to report to the headquarters for an assignment. The sargeant said, "We have a critical shortage of typists. I'll give you a little test. Type this," he ordered, giving him a pamphlet copy and a sheet of paper, and pointing across the room that held a typewriter and an adding machine.
The man, quite reluctant to become a clerk typist, made a point of typing very slowly, and saw to it that his work contained as many errors as possible.
The sargeant gave the typed copy only a brief glance.
"That's fine," he said, "Report for work at 8 tomorrow."
"But aren't you going to check the test?" the prospective clerk asked.
The sargeant grinned, "You passed the test, " he replied, "when you sat down at the typewriter instead of the adding machine."
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