For instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting there eating their breakfasts.

I ought to just try that witht my boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that would be the best thing for me. He'd fall right off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates.