The sensitive matter of food in the office

Yep, we all gotta eat. Picture the scene - you are in England. You are used to eating a sandwich for lunch. It's healthy, you don't feel like a pig afterwards and you can get through the rest of the day without falling asleep at your desk.

Picture this...
I'm in my office in Naija (Nigeria for the non-Nigerians). You no longer go hunting for food as you used to do. Down the steps, across the road, wait a bit, collect the food, back up the steps and voila you've built up an appetite after being at your desk all morning. Oh no, here you phone your order through and they bring the food all the way to you. And this is not a sandwich we are talking about. Fully fledged meals of rice, chicken, plantain etc washed down with big cartons of juice. I've already put on a couple of pounds in a week. What will happend to me over a few years. My neck will stretch to twice it's width and so will my belly.

I must find a way to smuggle in my sandwiches. And when my colleagues see me and start laughing at me with derision at least I know I'll have the last laugh when my neck does not grow big. They already look at me unbelievably when I jog up those 8 flights of steps rather than taking the lift...

As an aside, I'm impressed at the level of knowledge my colleagues have. Because a lot of the capital markets stuff is all new, there's not yet a depth of experience and hence there's no division of labour. You get mid level people who have taken companies to the market, who are heading stock broking divisions, who are advising firms on corporate finance strategy, who have been involved in real estate investments from start to finish. I'm supposed to be leading them - gulp. In the west, especially in London, there is so much availability of talent that you are compartmentalised into a speciality and have no clue how to take the whole thing from start to finish. No such over-availability of talent here. By the way, we need a fund account...

p.s. Thanks for the comments guys, keep them coming...