I am going to Bristol with 2 colleagues (both in their late twenties)to do a presentation for a potential client. The contract is worth around £150k in the first year.
It will be the last one I do for the company, and I am determined to make it a bloody good one!
I was trying to persuade M, who will be the Account Director for this project (if we/the company get the business) to cover a couple of the slides, but he said "No, you do it, you're far better at presenting than I am." 
I am entitled to 6 weeks notice, but my boss does not think it in my best interest to work my notice, even though I have said that I would prefer to. (He has said that I should now view job hunting as a full time job, and has offered me and the other 3 people whose jobs are also redundant, the use of the an "office" facility at his house, i.e. telephone, computer etc, to "spend 9 to 5, just as if you were going to work," seeking new positions. I realise that this is kind of him, but please bear in mind that this is also a man who at our most recent meeting re. the redundancy, was saying how he helped our intern make her C.V run to 5 pages! Every site I have looked at indicates 2 pages maximum.)
Oh well, as one door closes, another one comes off it's hinges and drops on your toes.
PS My boss was, at one stage, wanting me to cease work from last Friday, but I argued the case for this one last blast. I have been working with this potential client since November 2011, plus the Account Director, mentioned above, said that he wouldn't want to do it without me!
xxWORD PAIRS -APRIL 2026 (Old thread full )
