Which would count out this approach…

AA: Tarquin elects himself leader of The Open Plan Office Opposition.  He begins the campaign by asking The Boss to spend an hour in the Typing Pool, to see how much work he can get done.   We are confident that this will put an end to the open plan nonsense, but to our dismay, as soon as he sits down, a hush falls over the desks, the likes of which has never been experienced before…..

“I don’t know what you’re moaning about,” he tells Tarquin, later.  ”They were as quiet as mice whilst I was out there.”

“Well, I suppose they would be, wouldn’t they?  You are their boss; they are scared of you.”

“Really?”

“Yes.”

“How marvellous!”

Tarquin sighs, realising the tactical error.  “It will be a different matter,” he reasons “When you’re holed up inside your glass palace.”

“I doubt it,” The Boss counters, “Not with you out here, keeping order.”

“It is not my job to keep order!  It is my job to manage cases and earn fees; two things I shall not be able to do it I am surrounded by – ” he stops himself.

“By what?”

“By -”  he hesitates.

“Go on.”

“By women!”  There, he has said it.  He can’t abide the thought of being near females.

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