There was a time when the only temporary office staff were (1) (TYPING) and (2) (TELEPHONING). Now, the boss may also be among the temps.
The interim (3) (EMPLOYMENT) agency GMS estimates that around 10,000 senior (4) (EXECUTIVES) are working on short-term contracts in the UK. The market is believed to be worth some 400 million pounds, up from 100 million pounds at the start of the 1990s. The phenomenon, which (5) (ORIGINATED) in the Netherlands, is also growing (6) (RAPIDLY) in Australia, Germany and Italy.
The great appeal is that it allows me to apply my (7) (MANAGEMENT) skills across a wide (8) (VARIETY) of businesses, 48-year-old manager David McNeil told the Financial Times. McNeil hAs 25 years of experience in food and drink (9) (MARKETING) and has recently taken on a number of short-term (10) (APPOINTMENTS), including a six-month contract with the supermarket Sainsbury.
1. -Please, remind us the name of the manager with whom you negotiated for the delivery of timber.
2. -Why do you need a manager if I dictate the date and number of the contract, the amount, delivery volume and 30% pre-payment?
3. -The fact is that we have another department dealing with the forest and they will tell you more information.
4. -I can't know for 2000 km what Department is engaged in what, in my place there are under under loading railway carriages. The price of cut larch is 16.800 rubles and if you send a payment order for 30% of the amount on my email, that is 4.032.000, I will send you the entire batch, all of your 800 cubic meters, after you will send the remaining 9.408.000 rubles under the contract. Please understand that this is not our long-distance road trains, this is a railway and it has its own rules. The railway will charge us a penalty for leased but not used cars, then we will have to go to arbitration and instead of a reliable business partnership, we will get a lot of problems.
5. -Oh, what can I do? What do you suggest?
6. -Your Olympian calmness is killing me. I ask you to deal with the matter immediately and inform me that the first tranche has started, I will start loading immediately or we will terminate the contract and cancel the transaction.
7. -No-no! I’ll take care of everything now. Please don’t cancel the loading. I’ll report to you about the movement in quarter of an hour.