Re: Weirdest consulting gig (OK, top THIS!)

[Michael Andrew Uhl <uhl -at- VISLAB -dot- EPA -dot- GOV>]

This sounds like Scott Adams material...something Ratbert might have thought up.
;-)

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JIMCHEVAL -at- AOL -dot- COM wrote:

> A colleague of mine tells of a techical writing assignment he went on wherein
> the boss - having bawled him out for showing up 'late' (from a doctor's
> appointment he'd already informed someone else about) - called him into her
> office and blithely explained that he wasn't there to write at all but to
> gather information on the other (staff) writer so that the boss could justify
> firing her (presumably to the home office, on the other side of the country.)
>
> He quietly responded that he obviously couldn't work there, picked up the
> phone and explained to his consulting company - in front of the client - why
> he had to leave.  Then, as he did so, the client called out to him -"OK, never
> mind, you won't have to do that!  But stay!! Please stay!!"
>
> TW as (temporary) company spy - does it get any weirder?
>
> Jim Chevallier
> North Hollywood
> http://www.gis.net/~jimcheval
>
> Currently appearing as 'Gorgibus' in Moliere's 'Les Precieuses Ridicules' at
> the Globe Playhouse, 1107 North King's Road in West Hollywood - (323) 933-5664
> for tix.
>
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