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Woman: Well, I’m quite nervous about it, to be honest. I’ve never met the boss before, and I’ve heard that it can be a bit dismissive of younger employees. And it is only because of my immediate superior is sick that I have been asked to represent our department at today’s meeting. It’s so early, as well, nine o’clock. That’s why I am hoping there are no delays on the way today. At least we were making a good time so far. I really hope this meeting could be fruitful and bring some benefits to our department.
Man: Yes, the meeting seemed to go pretty well, and we covered all important areas on my agenda. There were one or two small points that I would have liked to get through, but I can probably have my assistants send out memos to the managers of each department concerning those. I must say I was very impressed with your ideas for the future of your department. Good work! I’ m also very impressed with that young man in the Finance Department. What’s his name? Oh, Mike. He could have quite a future in front of him, like a young man. I can certainly use fresh ideas like his in this company.
Woman: I think I mentioned to you all before that at the interdepartmental meeting with the managing director last week, it was put to me that we need to look into expansion into new markets. And I am interested in any suggestions that anyone in our department may come up with. You had some excellent ideas for expansion last year when we moved into the Middle East market. So if you could all give that some thought, I know Sara, that you said you looked into the possibility of further eastern European customers on your last trip to the Czech Republic: and I’ll be interested in your report when it’s ready.
Man: And Andrew, have you got those figures for the suggestions for the new courses that we hope to be able to offer? Or were those in the file that you left in your office, too? I’d like to take them with me to the interdepartmental meeting this afternoon, as it should be a good opportunity to try to persuade everyone there of the value of those new courses, the new language scheme training in particular. If I am successful in this, it could mean a profitable expansion for all of us in our department. So, eh, please remember to get them to me this time.
Woman: Well, I don’t know, we didn’t really talk about my department. Most items on the agenda seem to be about our new marketing strategy of something, which has very little to do with me. But I suppose it will affect me eventually because if we do expand, a lot more staff will be needed. So I’ll be busy interviewing for a while. But apparently that’s unlikely to be before next September. Actually that’s a point, though. Perhaps we should think about taking our holiday in France before then, because you said something about being very busy in your job after August. We don’t want the same complications as last year.