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I’m always irritated by people who have conversations on their mobile phone whilst on the train. I’ll sit happily with those quietly updating partners on an ETA but not full blown discussions that we all have to listen to. Today, the lady opposite me was so loud that I could hear every word over the music on my head phones. As I had no choice but to listen, I thought I’d just jot down what she was saying and blog it. Not quite as good as the time I heard a salesman describe his entire sales pitch for Great Ormond Street hospital and his minimum acceptable price, or the time I heard somebody talking about confidentially making fifty staff redundant at a Natwest in Peterboro, but anyway…

“I had to spoon feed him through a flow diagram that we’ve been over and over again and again. I cannot believe he can’t recall the basic facts. Then I gave the Graham Ward example. He was incapable of putting a sequence of rational thought together. I did pick up on that to Darren… yes contemptuous. It’s the glib way he was doing this, he inferred that none of us could do this because Ward was an ex partner. How dare you! Any one of us could have done this! I was just shocked that this creature has just come out of a very important external meeting.�

“I’m going to be so worried about this until it’s over. Just so glad that apparently since that behaviour, a later meeting has also been complained about. He’s just an absolute supremo. When I talk to Darren he said that it’s not going to just be about this meeting, it’s not no, it’s one in a sequence. You’re joking! I’m not supposed to know about the issue, I’d never speak to Laurie about it, we have a very good working relationship, is she alright? God… tut tut. Hideous, it’s hideous.”

“Every time I have to speak with him it makes me feel really horrible about being duplicitous, I do hope Alan understands that we are honest nice people. I don’t like living this lie. I want the problem to be resolved, I don’t care how, I’m so praying that Darren can make Alan understand that he has a lot of key people in the business who dread coming into work. It’s not really funny, and it’s a mess whichever way you look at it.â€?

I didn’t manage to catch where she works unfortunately, or I would have enlightened the world so we don’t go there ourselves.

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