I'll go again.

Are we recording now?

Eve is a stunning producer.

We're all laughing because I just said that, but Eve said I'm not recording yet,

so I've said it again because we are recording.

Eve is a stunning producer because she remembered Jane that we did leave hanging the team

building day's email from Jackie because we just got completely carried away I think talking about

Tom Bradby our guest at the end of yesterday's podcast easily done so let. So let's have it now. So here we go,

Jackie. I'm just catching up on the podcast and heard the chat about team building days. It

took me right back to the 1980s when as a young woman of 24, I was working in admin for a social

services department in East Sussex. I'd only been there for a few months and had to endure the dreaded day.

It was just weird. The first exercise involved about 20 people sitting in a circle, including

management, and under each chair was a piece of paper that contained your task. I'm not sure,

but I think where you sat was by choice, so I don't think the tasks were meant for specific people.

Imagine my horror when I read mine. I had to go around the room and say what I thought was the

most attractive physical feature of each person. What year was this? So this is in the 1980s and Jackie

was 24. Oh dear. I know. To this day, I have no idea what that task was meant to achieve.

To make matters worse, there were several team leaders, mostly older males, who definitely

had no attractive physical attributes whatsoever.

I stumbled my way through it, mortified and bright red in the face.

My defaults were lovely smile or kind eyes. What

does that even mean? I honestly can't remember any of the tasks the others had, but I don't think

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