GOING Places chief Peter Shanks and Kuoni head of marketing Steve Diederich were among the many men nominated to receive red roses last weekend for Valentine’s Day.
Backchat and Avis successful played cupid by offering 20 bunches of red roses for readers who had secret passions for their colleagues in the industry.
Damien Turner, from the ITdepartment at ABC Holiday Extras, was nominated by all the female staff at the Ashford-based company who apparently think up pretend problems with their computers just to get him down to their office.
“Even though he has a bit of a beer belly we get very hot and lose our concentration when he leans over the keyboard,” the gasped.
“Sometimes he’ll even give us a massage at our desks if our shoulders are tired.”
David Smith, at KLM uk, also received a surprise bunch of flowers from all his friends in the female-dominated communications office: “He can hold his own in any discussion about the latest hair do and is up on all the latest soap gossip. He has even realised that the way to a 90s woman’s heart is via the kitchen and has recently taken up cookery lessons.” they said.
“Despite all this he remains a lad at heart and occasionally forces the office to discuss the merits of Arsenal’s latest goal scoring performance.”