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We’ve got a real problem here, so your advice has been very welcome. I’ve decided that what you said is probably true. We’ve got too many people working in non-productive departments and not enough people in those departments where the workload is increasing. Your idea of offering transfers before we do anything like starting a recruitment campaign is, I think, a good one and I’m going to follow it up.

I’ve been thinking about what you said about the hospitality committee. I completely agree with you that the arrangements they made for the annual conference last year were most inadequate and so, like you, I think it’d be a very bad idea to repeat them. However, I also think you should be very careful how you say this to the senior management. In my opinion, it’s not worth risking your career over something as minor as this.