Call Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke on my cell phone - isn't that how any investment banker gets out of predicaments nowadays?
I would reach into my utility belt, pull out my batarang, and hurl it onto a handy projection. Then while climbing the batrope I would my witty quips about even small problems seem insurmountable at times, but justice will prevail.
Well, since being shrunk to the size of a pencil is about as possible as my wishes coming true (see “Obama Still in Office” wish made Jan 21, 2008), I suppose I could just wish myself out.
"Take my pants off."
Interviewer: "Why?"
"To kiss my a$$ goodbye."
If my body were the size of a pencil (i.e. if I were as tall, head to toe, as a new pencil), I would extend my height/length by holding my arms out overhead and simply do the American Ninja Warrior spider walk to the top and kick off the lid with my free hand or foot.
I'm only much smaller, but I'm NOT much lighter. So - in my case - I still weigh about 195 lbs. So I just lean against the side of the blender, and it falls over, and I walk out.
I’d give them the same general answer all economists give when asked how they’d get out of a hypothetical fifty-foot hole: “First, assume a ladder”...
The responses at the post are hilarious. People take this too literal.
Shoot my way out.
It’s almost as rigorous as Procter and Gamble when I applied straight out of university. One group I was in was hauled into a room with pencil and paper and in the middle of the room was a swan origami. All 5 of us were scratching our heads why and the “moderator” comes in and tells us to fold the paper in front us in the shape of the swan.
the 2nd test was more usual than this...
i am also sure this was one of the questions govt sacks asks...”how can we actually screw every single person or organization we have or will ever deal with?”
If the guy who created that question had a brain would he be able to take the test?
Assuming the blender is not on, I would write “help” on the inside of the blender. Backwards, of course, so humans on the outside could read it and win a Nobel prize for discovering the first pencil that can write without a human helping it.
I would say, “Regardless of my current size, is there anyway I can get an internet connection, stock updates and a friggin’ phone. I need to line up some old geezer clients and sell them some frickin’ stock, by god...”
The best Goldman Sachs answers they want to hear:
Interviewee:
I would lobby or hire lobbyists to persuade [bribe] DC congress critters to make laws that would get me or my company out of the blender.
A better answer.
Goldman Sachs will place our people inside key government offices who will get me or our company out of the blender, and increase our size to become giants by earning us trillions of dollars; destroy our competitors; forgo any taxes; not pay any taxes; and do anything we wish.
The question doesn’t state that the blender is on so I would get on top of the blades and hurl myself to one side throwing my arms over the lip and climb out.