Well, here I am sitting in front of this bullshit computer screen doing bullshit work and telling "OAG" that I'm busy working on business proposals, outlining design documents, and forecasting revenue shares for the latest client project. Whatever, I've been sitting here for the last 2 to 3 months doing nothing but surfing the net and playing online and PC based games. I am at a point now where doing nothing is getting on my nerves. So, i started sending out resumes again I figure it's a new year and company fiscal cycles will be ending soon so there may be some new budgets that allow for new positions to open up. I do have an interview with a company tomorrow but it's just a conference call interview. The company is out of state and I would be willing to relocate but have to go over the details of it with the wife tonight. We'll see how that works out.
As for Tuesdays meeting with our only client at the industry convention I drove 4 hours west to go meet him for lunch. I didn't have a pass to get into the convention as it was too expensive and the company would not pay for my pass so in my e-mail I told the client that I would meet him for lunch at one of the hotels. I get to the convention and give him a call, i get his voice mail but it is so full I can't even leave him a message. I call "OAG" and tell her to get on the phone to his office back on the west coast to try and get someone there to get a hold of him. An hour later he calls me and lets me know that he has 2 last minute meetings that he has to go to and could I meet him for drinks around 5:30. Shit! I drove 4 hours out there it's now noon and I have to sit around, with no convention pass, and bum around this crappy little city for 5 hours waiting for him. Then after that I'll have to drive 4 hours back home. This ends up being a 15 hour day and seems to me like the most work I've done for "Company B" in the last 3 weeks combined. Oh Well.
So I spend the next 5 hours at a local strip club. Hey what would you do! I meet the client at 5:30 in his hotel and we go out for dinner. I explain to him that "Company B" is being bought by another company and that as long as they're ok with it the new company will just pick up where we left off. It should be seamless. Now, that's the VERY short version of this dinner but you get the idea. So, the client says he's fine with what I've told him so far but wants to be sure that there will be no interruption in production and that we now have to finalize the contract with the newly named company, a.k.a. "Company B With A New Shiny Name". However you look at this I feel like I worked a miracle by keeping the client calm about our hostile takeover, or bankruptcy, or what ever you want to call it. I told him everything that I knew up to this point but assured him that I'd be in control of the project and that it would be finished without a hitch. BULLSHIT! I should be in sales. Anyway, we now have to get the new representatives of "Company B With A New Shiny Name" to come over here to the U.S. and meet with me and "OAG" to see if we will have a job. Then we need to put them on a plane to the west coast to meet with our ONLY client and sign the contract. Again, we'll see how this goes. Looks like I'll be flying to the west coast next week.
Till then...I'll be on My Space screwin off.
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