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Meetings – with the added advantage of knee capping your boss mid-swing

One of the reasons I went freelance after a decade in newspapers and magazines was to escape those deathly management meetings where you’d sit around a large table, pretending to have ‘input’ whilst being bored out of your head, doodling ferociously on your moleskin jotter and wishing you were outside in the sunshine with a gin and tonic.

Then again, if this had been in the meeting room, maybe I would have enjoyed myself a whole lot more.

That’s progress for you!