Interviewing a member of staff for promotion

Preparing a report on daily sales figures

Meeting a sales representative from a supplier

Ordering a supply of potatoes

Preparing a report on the health and safety policy

Repairing a faulty piece of equipment on the production line

Chefs testing out a new fast meal idea

Staff packing the finished product into boxes

Planning how many shepherds pies need making next week

Working with a trade union to solve a problem about a member of staff who is consistently late to work

Doing a survey of customers to find out their views of different products

Paying local authority business rates

Ordering supplies of paper for the photocopier in the accounts department

Investigating a new piece of software to monitor quality of pies

Dealing with a complaint from an employee that the production areas are too cold

Arranging the payment of the annual bonus to staff

Stripping down and cleaning production equipment each night

Taking the minutes of a meeting of the senior managers

Sending a fax to a meat supplier in Ireland

Monitoring cars and other vehicles entering the factory site

Planning a different way of producing the range of chicken and broccoli pies

Discussion of prices for the 'Healthy Living' range with Tesco

Dealing with a complaint from Tesco about the quality of cumberland pies

Ordering new sets of overalls for the production workers