I had started my working career in the Corporate world of Insurance and Brokerage and it was such an eye opening world to me, my first day working with a high prestigious Insurance Brokerage in the City which was a look at the real world. I became aware because of events that one of the woman in the office had taken an overdose in the toilets because she was having an affair with one of the male Directors in the Office and she had told her husband in an effort to end up with the Director who had rejected her love offer and shattered her world.
These were crazy times in the world and so different from working life today, the office was run by male Directors and women were in the typing pool and Administration and the few women who were in the world of insurance were not your typical female they were very aggressive and had to be to survive in such as male dominated code.
These were the days of long boozy lunches and the men would go out doing their business over 5 hour drinking lunch’s extravagance and living large on the corporate credit card whilst we would be back at the office. My job was to print out and separate all of the insurance documents that would go out to clients and would take a lot of work and precision to operate computer technology and equipment in those days. I can recall one day one of the older male directors coming back from a very long lunch and very intoxicated and walked into the print room and standing in front of me grinning from ear to ear and ripping up every one of the hundreds of invoices that I had just printed and separated. This was further followed by my bosses and superiors laughing and putting down to his normal behaviour, such a gentleman and I never forgot that moment and I noted a shift in my thought process and red flags appeared.
