My company gets university students in as interns every year. They decided that as I am a manager with no one working in my area I should get one for four months. I didn’t really want one as it felt like more effort than it’s worth but who am I to argue with the company? So I get a bunch of CVs, immediately ditched the guys (surely I don’t need to explain that or justify it to anyone here do I?) and settled on three girls...

I was in seat 1A. Don’t get too excited now, this was a Ryanair flight not a fancy business class seat on a longhaul flight but the ticket I had booked did give me a ‘premium’ seat and priority boarding. It also gave me a great view of the other passengers walking to the plane which let me play the ‘sit beside me, don’t sit beside me’ game. It’s not a complicated game, I am not a complicated guy, it just involves me judgi...

The start of another month meant another business trip. I work at the European headquarters for one of those big American tech companies that are taking over the world and my role includes going to the different European countries in turn to let them know how things were going and what they needed to do to fix things. This month London was the destination which meant it was a little different to the other trips. First of...