How to Make Conversation with Someone Who You Have Not Seem in a Long Time

Back in my old office job, the company headquarters would occasionally send us “corporate trainers” in a vain attempt to fix whatever was wrong with us. It was part of my job to help the trainers set up. This usually involved setting out chairs, rigging the A/V system, arranging visual aids, making sure everyone in the office knew what was happening, when it was happening, and why they wanted to be there to see it. Usually I’d end up introducing the trainer to the staff at the beginning of their presentation. At the risk of sounding full of myself, I usually got high marks from my supervisors at how efficiently and effectively I managed these tasks.

I don’t think it ever occurred to them that the skills I used in those situations were the same as the ones I honed doing awful one-night-stand comedy shows in hotel bars, which, sadly, had been my bread and butter, thus making it inevitable that I would eventually take on an office job.

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