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A few years ago I worked at a telephone market research company whilst at uni. There was one particularly strange chap who looked like one of the mad scientists in Young Einstein: messy, curled hair, a stressed look as if recovering from a nervous breakdown. Despite most of the employees being students and dressing so, this guy - in his 40s - wore a suit, had a briefcase (we daren't guess what was in it), and spoke in a ridiculously posh voice on the phone. He spoke to no one. I always imagined he'd perhaps lost some executive management job a few years previous and to this day had kept it a secret from his wife, leaving the house in a suit and briefcase to work in a dingy North London market research call centre. A girl caught him having a wank in the girls toilets once. Maybe that was why he got the sack.
(BeardyMat, Thu 24 Jan 2008, 19:42, Reply)