Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.
The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.
It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.
Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.
