In the heady, asset-inflated bubble of the 1980's, Hamao Yokota used to receive marching orders from his boss, a branch manager at the Bank of Yokohama: Lend money or else.
Her boss, Robert K. Farmand, the branch manager, has worked for the past 10 days to find ways to get his 35 other workers to the office, he said.
In April, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts scooped up the retail chain Alliance Boots, while at the start of June, Permira announced it would bid for Hugo Boss, currently a branch of the Valentino Fashion Group.
In Bristol, bosses at a branch of Fitness First had to install needle bins earlier this year because so many members were leaving syringes lying around.
They targeted political groups and "hoovered up" all the knowledge and information that they gathered to report back to their bosses in Special Branch.
Property manager Jo Clarke, 26, was given vouchers by store bosses at a branch in Crayford, south east London, to compensate her for her treatment.
As the City regulator published rules that cover a range of roles from top bosses to junior branch staff, it added that it wanted to broaden the scope of its new powers to fine and ban individuals.
In 2013, 27-year-old manager Allison Trathen alleged that her boss in an Illinois branch of Peak Technical subjected her to a campaign of harassment that culminated in him following her into an elevator and assaulting her by rubbing his genitals against her backside while grunting.
At the NUJ photographers' conference in May, Roy Mincoff – the NUJ legal officer – asked for an assurance from Commander Bob Broadhurst, the head of the Met's public order branch and boss of the Fit, that journalists' details were not being kept on a database.
Charlotte gets to taste danger again when she skips off to Dublin to infiltrate a group of Irish nationalists who may have had a hand in a plot against Victor Narraway, Pitt's boss at the Special Branch before he was ousted by a personal enemy and possible traitor.
