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Are you 'doing a Bridget'?
Bridget Jones made slacking in the workplace acceptable. But that was 1996. Times have changed – have you? Take our quiz to find out if ‘doing a Bridget’ is holding you back at work
 
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1. You have an important internal meeting in about 20 minutes. Do you:
  Get a coffee, decide it’s meaningless without a Silk Cut in hand, leave the building for a fag break plus coffee and forget your notes altogether.
  Spend the time reacquainting yourself with the topics that are likely to come up.
  Get a coffee then consider looking over your notes.
 
2. A vacancy comes up at work. One of your old girlfriends – blatantly unqualified – has just moved to your area and she’s looking for a job. Do you:
  Tell her to email her CV over, pronto. Rush into HR, lie till you’re blue in the face. Then sit back and imagine how the two of you can slope off on long lunches on an astonishingly regular basis.
  Put her CV forward to see what happens. You don’t want to deprive her of the chance to get a job.
  Decide not to put her forward because you know she can’t do the job.
 
3. It’s Thursday and there’s a birthday bash happening tonight outside London. You have to catch a train at 4.30pm and don’t want to return to the office till Tuesday. Problem is, you’ve squandered all your holiday entitlement. Do you:
  Offer to take the two-and-a-bit days as unpaid holiday.
  Start showing signs of a mysterious sickness on Tuesday, let the symptoms gather momentum through Wednesday and on Thursday, unleash the finale: appear at work minus make-up, retching uncontrollably. Then quit the office, hail a cab and head for the station, right on time.
  Ask coyly if there’s any chance you could take less holiday next year, or the year after. Then promise to bring back samples of the local delicacies for all to try.
 
4. The vague idea that you want to improve your career flashes across your mind. Do you:
  Catch sight of a rather dishy young man who has wandered into the office and suddenly forget the whole thing.
  Pull up your CV and start updating it with gusto.
  Get on the phone, call a summit meeting over a glass or two of wine with your girlfriends for that night.
 
5. You’re running late, wake up and look in the mirror. You see that your eyebrows look like two fat slugs. Do you:
  Go to work wearing a peaked cap. If anybody looks at you strangely, just say you’re getting into baseball – it’s great for your thighs.
  Reach for the tweezers and administer a speedy, botched and painful job. There’s no way you can go to work looking like a Hungarian folk dancer.
  Put things in perspective and just go to work.
 
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