This month, we caught up with James, one of our new Operations Managers in our Landscaping team based at our head office in Bordon. We gave him 20 questions and an hour to have a think and revert to us with his answers.
Each month we will be putting these or a similar set of questions to another member of the IPM team, giving you a little more insight into the people that make up IPM.
How long have you been working with IPM?
3 months
What do you do at IPM?
Operations Manager overseeing the teams and sites in the Southern Region
Describe yourself in one word?
Easy going
Any pets?
2 cats - Tilly & Loki
Favourite film?
Scarface
Which actor plays you in your biopic?
Lee Majors (The Six Million Dollar Man)
Biggest phobia?
Taphophobia (fear of being buried alive)
If you were an animal, what would you be?
Capybara - Highly social and friendly
What do you like most about your job?
All of it
You can go back in time, where do you go first?
1888, to see who Jack the Ripper was
Any superstitions?
None
What is the strangest fact you know?
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can
3 Dinner Party guests (dead, alive, or fictional)?
Jason Statham, Jim Carrey, Angelina Jolie
Favourite movie quote?
The Mask - "You were good kid, real good. but as long as I'm around, you'll always be second best, see?"
Last book you read?
Audi A6 Manual - Its like the space shuttle inside
Dream holiday?
The Maldives
Something about you that none of your colleagues knows?
Both my shin bones are pinned due to a motorbike accident in the early 90s
You have one superpower, what and why?
Teleportation - to get wherever I wanted
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
At IPM with a more senior role
Finally, you Desert Island disc, book and a luxury item?
Metallica 'Ride the Lightning', The Titanic Conspiracy, Satellite Phone