One of things I adore about my job is the fact that you are constantly reminded of exactly what young people are like and how different they are from you! Take last week when I was talking to a PA about her arrangements for leaving the company. We were just running through the final details of her leaving date, when to return her mobile and blackberry and I asked her if there was anything we had not covered.

At this point I was expecting a question about references, or maybe a question about continuing a benefit beyond her leaving date. I offered that she might like to keep her mobile phone number for her next phone. She found that faintly amusing: “I always have my two phones – one for mates and music and one for going abroad. But thanks anyway.”

There was something that mattered hugely to her though - her Facebook account. Would it be okay if she told all her mates that we’d agreed that the company was not really her thing and she was looking for somewhere more creative? She wanted to tell everyone that she was going to focus on her music and singing career and the work was just getting in the way of rehearsals. Could she post all the photos from her leaving lunch with “the girls”?

What on earth was I thinking?