The chairman's staff may have a touch of the déjà flus but when it comes to Bling he's on to a winner
"You know, I've never really seen you as the receptionist type," I said to the chairman of the insignificantly sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as I arrived at the office en route to a couple of pints of Some Hope at The Horsburgh's Calibre. "How many times do I have to tell you?" said the chairman, looking up from his copy of hot new celebrity finance mag Bling, the first title from nascent publishing empire SmallBlue Media. "Here at SmallBlue we don't have receptionists, we have directors of first impressions." "Sorry," I said. "I forgot. Still, why are you manning the front de...
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