Sunday, February 20, 2011

How to decide which receipts are important..

At an early point in her career Sandy Toksvig apparently had a temping job in the accounts department for Wandsworth sewer. She talked about this on Radio 4's The News Quiz on 11 February 2011 and explained:
"It was my job to work out which receipts were important and which were not."
And then she explained how she fulfilled her responsibility:
"All I did was put one in ten in the bin."



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