I don’t need reminding or convincing that the problem is me, or lies with me. In one place of work, as I left the office, I walked pass a restaurant / cafe unit where I knew some of my colleagues, and my manager, were at. My manager had said that she would return to chat further with me about work and tasks, but that didn’t happen. Being me, I didn’t want to wait longer than the time I had already spent at work, and left.
From the restaurant, my manager saw me leaving and coming out just in good time to chat with me. It was the usual kind of tasks she reminded me about.
My manager was very very busy. In a team of 6, there was not enough time to do such a range of work and manage more than 2 or 3 of us and our work. Well, it would be possible, but it would take someone with a very productive way of working.
Biscuit was often left on the desk for days on end. Sometime part of it had been bitten off, and still left there. My manager could not have the time even to eat the biscuit. It was in her direct line of sight, but simply no time for it.
I learnt a range of important things at this place of work which put me in a competitive position for subsequent employment. I got on with projects and tasks with little supervision, and contributed to new procedures of team working. It is a “fertile ground” to learn a lot of things, and I suspect this is the background from which my manager and other colleagues had come to where they were in their career, to do the kind of responsibilities their respective roles called for. I often recall, though, whether the biscuits have remained on the desk. 
