Welcome to Optimism

view from the front desk

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We’re sure many of you are dying to know what we get up to on reception as all we seem to do is laugh and gossip. So, here it is. Apart from doing the usual of answering phones, booking taxis, making lots of teas and greeting clients, we also have to act as security guards to protect everyone from the passing weirdos who want to come in and take a look around. They don’t seem to understand that we’re not an art gallery, or a library, or a shop, or anything else along those lines and that we are in fact just an office. A lot of them have taken a shine to the self portraits that we have all done, which now decorate three of the walls in reception. Some inquire how much it would cost to buy them, but we’ve told them we can’t put a price on artwork of such a high quality! 

In between the influx of our ‘unusual’ visitors and more welcome guests, we perform our daily tasks to the best of our ability and make sure we’re having fun while we do it – we feel it’s important to have a friendly, relaxed atmosphere on the front desk.

Katie and Claire xx

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football chums

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The agency had a great run at yesterday’s NABS 5-a-side competition.  After negotiating our way out of a tricky group stage, Our Brave Boys made it all the way to the quarter-finals before succumbing to a strong J. C. Decaux side.  To get this far in our debut appearance in a competition containing 60 teams is quite an achievement (really) and gives us something to build on next time around.

Special thanks to Bob who’s been recently been working with Guy ‘Featherlite’ Featherstone in our design department and was lethal up front, Shay ‘Stadium’  Reading for his energy and tenacity, Stuart ‘Stewbacca’ Harkness for his deft touches and pinpoint passes, Frere ‘100 acre’ Woods for sorting out all the admin and Captain Matt ‘biffer’ Boffey for leading the team to victory. Nearly.

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