The Finance Investment Company is located in Houston, Texas. The company is only two years old, but it has made the headlines in regional magazines as “the company to watch.” It is staffed with three investment analysts and four secretaries. The firm occupies a fairly small space with the secretaries in the front office and the analysts’ offices adjacent to the front office.Mr. Jones, a top-notch analyst, is very unfriendly. He runs the company with an iron fist. Jones is the first one at work and the last one to leave. Promptness is his motto.The women working in the office think the middle-aged Jones is attractive. One secretary commented to another, “I wonder what it’s like to be married to him. He’s so good looking, but he’s such a stuffed shirt. He couldn’t be that much fun to be married to.” Jones never talked to them; it seemed as if business was the only thing on his mind. Recently, Jones began coming in late, taking long lunch hours, and leaving earlier. One of the secretaries commented, “Boy, what a change in Mr. Jones. I wonder what’s going on?” Another secretary replied, “You’re right; I’ve noticed a change in him also. He started all this about the time that new woman began working here.” The secretaries did not like the new woman in the office. She was tall, blonde, and beautiful. She talked little, could hardly type, and knew little about computers. The other secretaries wrote her off as a “dumb blonde.” One secretary commented to another, “Old Jonesey is not only coming in from lunch late, but lately he’s been in the best moods. He even talked to me today!” Another said, “I noticed that, and I also saw his secretary coming in the door right after he did. And a woman calls about 6 p.m. every afternoon for Mr. Jones, but he has been leaving the office at 4:30 and cannot take the call.” The other secretary said, “Well, I can put two and two together. Can’t you?”

1. Financial Investment Company is located in Houston, Texas.

2. Financial Investment Company is the fastest-growing company in Houston.

3. The building has four offices.

4. Jones is unfriendly.

5. Jones is very prompt.

6. Jones owns the company.

7. Jones has an iron fist.

8. Jones is about 45 years old.

9. Jones is married.

10. Jones hired a new secretary.

11. The new secretary is a gorgeous blonde.

12. The new woman types well.

13. Jones returns to the office in a good mood.

14. The secretaries in the office think that Jones is having an affair with the gorgeous blonde

15. Jones is having lunch with his secretary.

16. Jones is not going home after work.

17. A woman calls Jones every day at 6 p.m.

18. Jones’s wife is probably looking for him.

19. Jones is going through his midlife crisis

a. What critical communication error is demonstrated with this exercise? Explain.