I'm bored of the recession. I mean really bored. Can everyone just get over it? The business won't be growing at 20 per cent any longer – but like that was ever sustainable anyway!

And I see a couple of the directors have just got nice new cars so I assume the business is doing OK.

Yet still everyone goes on about cutting costs, and muttering about “tough economic conditions.” And if I get any more sighs when I hand in the expenses form I am going to give it both barrels ...

I know I’m unlikely to lose my job unless I do something extra stupid, yet I feel I must be downbeat whenever I go to the pub with my mates. My life is as peachy as ever, but it seems inappropriate to go on about how lucky I am when everyone else looks so miserable. Plus, they would expect me to pay for the drinks.

There is no doubt that the news is terrible. But everyone I know in PR seems to have a decent standard of living. There appears to be no shortage of food judging from our expanding waistlines, no matter how much the weekly food bill is increasing.

So I suggest that those of us who aren’t suffering should stop pretending that we are! And so should our tight-fisted bosses.

Here’s my note to management:

1. It is a false economy to stop providing us with decent coffee and biscuits. The time we now waste going to Starbucks is costing you far more.

2. Our clients expect to be wined and dined somewhere half decent. They might not want us to waste their fees on Michelin-star restaurants, but they don’t want to be sitting in Subway either.

3. It’s not fair to impose a pay freeze when we know that directors are enjoying increased company bonuses.

4. How come we aren’t allowed to take taxis anywhere, yet you drive into work in Porsches and have free parking in Central London?

5. Making us work longer hours does not increase our productivity. Don’t you realise that we spend all that extra time online looking for another job?