7 July 2015
The VeePee and I are meeting each of the CIPA staff, one by one, to make us feel important. We ask them how they are getting on and whether we can do anything to help, or whether they would prefer us to leave them alone. Most of them say they think it is great that CIPA is changing so much and becoming so almost-modern. But they also think it is maybe time now for a period of consolidation. “Consolidation” is a euphemism, in this context, so, yes, they would prefer us to leave them alone. They want time to get used to having been in the 20th Century before we hurtle timidly into the 21st. Some of the staff have worked at CIPA for more than a decade. The Institute has changed so much in that time that they must wonder if they’ve come to the wrong place some mornings. Their loyalty and flexibility are awesome. We offer them biscuits as a thank you, or perhaps by way of compensation, depending on how you look at it. They say they can remember the time when biscuits were banned, as an Austerity Measure, because it didn’t seem right for chartered patent attorneys to be dining out on custard creams when the country was in recession. I am glad to be presiding over a time of comparative plenty.
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