No room for sentiment

When Jessica announced her resignation last week she handed me a laminated and extensive client list with names, emails, telephone numbers, birthdays, interest lists, inside leg measurements and the kids' birthdays. I should have known better than to have thought optimistically. My boss was very enthusiastic. "Call them", he said, "They need coverage" although clearly, the reason Jessica left was because they didn't need her coverage and since she was flogging the same product it was unlikely her client base would discover a sudden imperative to receive Inn Securities research and pay for it, especially when the new conduit for said analytical output was this rum cove.