Glenn Jarvis

But I had another guy who came from head office and he had a really swanky apartment right near the House of Lords.

And he treated me like I was a bit of a sage.

He'd ask me all sorts of questions like, did I want to go to the Middle East and help them buy oil?

And I said, no, I was quite happy in London and

should we get more Americans over here because they work a bit harder than the English?

And I said, no, I don't think that's a good idea.

And on one hand, I felt like the village idiot.

But on the other hand, I was treated like I had quite a bit to offer as well.

But I didn't really understand where my mate Philippe was coming from when he was asking me questions like that.

Well, I'd had a couple of holidays.

I'd been skiing in France and I had a mate who wanted to travel around Italy for two weeks.

But the firm were introducing a new accountancy package and they just said no one can have holidays for the next three or four months we're doing this.

So I rang my mate and I said, look, I think I'm going to struggle because the company have said no one can have holidays.

And he said, well, what are you, a man or a mouse?

So I went, oh, well.

I think I'll tell them I'm going to resign if I can't take my holidays.

And I ran it past my friend from head office, Philippe, and he said, if I was you, I'd be taking your holidays.

So I thought, that's it, I'm off to Italy for two weeks.

And I came back and when I was away, I kind of thought I might have done the wrong thing here.

I might be in a bit of strife when I got back to work, but I wasn't really prepared for what happened when I did get back to work.