Day 7 - Leased assets

"Well your references were quite good. Excellent in fact. He says that were allowed to recruit you, but that he considers you only to be on loan, and that he wants you back."

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"If this were a normal interview, I would be typing up your offer letter right now. But we've just recruited, and so we think we've got enough staff to manage the capacity of work we have. However, it's our policy never to turn away someone who has the talent. So I'm going to talk to the other partners and see what we can do. I'll get back to you next week."