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people’s babies. I hate talking to people about their fucking hobbies, if I liked it<br />

I’d do it too numb nuts. But they liked me listening and a good listener, who<br />

knows when to nod, is seen as likeable and thus a people person. So all you<br />

cheerful, bubbly fucks stop your yapping and open your ears, fill that vacuum<br />

between them and repeat enough of what the speaker is saying so they think that<br />

you agree with them. <strong>The</strong>y like people who agree with them.<br />

That would be the wisdom I would have passed down to my team. You can’t<br />

really teach that though and it is a delicate balancing act to keep up the facade<br />

of caring when you don’t. <strong>The</strong> last thing you can appear to be is arrogant,<br />

humble and dumb beats knowledgeable and arrogant, if you can pull off<br />

knowledgeable and humble that is divine.<br />

<strong>The</strong> best contacts or big fish I was ordered to split between the big six. I hated<br />

those pricks but on Thursday I was going to be given an hour with each of them<br />

and run through all aspects of the sales and contracts of the clients. That day<br />

was horrible but that night I was on a plane to Poland, staring at the girl, the<br />

woman I now knew to be called Elzbieta. I called her Elly.<br />

We nearly didn’t make the flight though as I hadn’t factored in a terrible<br />

accident that paralysed Leeds city centre. I had to abandon a taxi to take the<br />

train to the nearest train station to our flat. Once I was there I had hoped that<br />

Elly would be good to go and we’d be on our way. Unfortunately she was still<br />

getting dressed after spending all day in bed it seemed. Well she might have

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