There was a song in the early 60s called Surf City by Jan and Dean.  (It was co-written by Brian Wilson.)

Its refrain was: “Two girls for every boy.”

Putting to one side the 45-year-old, outdated, chauvinistic, downright greedy and – if taken to its logical conclusion – orgyistic and bigamistic sentiments of that popular hit parade tune’s lyrics for one moment, today the ratio of secretaries to lawyers in the legal department in which I work is 3:2.

Tomorrow it’ll be 3:1.

I’ll be the 1, alone in the office on my birthday.

One can’t help but think something’s gone tits up in the planning here…