They found us the very man for the job - and we only had a week…

385 "They found us the very man for the job — and we only had a week ..." "REMEMBER I asked if you knew anyone who could run our sales office when the manager died suddenly? We were in rather a jam—there wasn't a junior quite fit to take over. "Well besides asking various friends, we put our problem to the Regional Appointments Office—told them (without much hope) that we needed someone that very week. Someone good, too. "It was an eye-opener to me. They set the wires humming (all their fourteen Appointments Office are linked by teleprinter, so they cover the whole country) and by the Thursday they'd given me names and details of half a dozen picked candidates.