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Break a leg
I went to a footie match that memory vendor Kingston was having. It was a right laugh. All those sales boys running around, even a few old geezers like myself took part. Mind you thinks didn’t turn out that well for one exec who apparently while playing one of their major rival resellers went down after a particularly bad tackle, with a serious leg injury. Hope the poor bloke feels better soon.
Break a leg
I went to a footie match that memory vendor Kingston was having. It was a right laff. All those sales boys running around, even a few old geezers like myself took part. Mind you thinks didn’t turn out that well for one exec who apparently while playing one of their major rival resellers went down after a particularly bad tackle, with a serious leg injury. Hope the poor bloke feels better soon.
Paint it black
I had a bit of a shocker the other day. You see, I’d picked up some, er, suspiciously cheap white Ford Mondeos from my mate to use as fleet cars. It turns out that he didn’t prepare all of them ahead of time. For instance, the previous owners had left orange and yellow stickers all over them, and there were mountings for video cameras and radio gear in the front. Turns out they belonged to the local plod.
Sounds quite similar to Best Buy’s mobile techies, the Geek Squad. They have a fleet of 150 VW Beetles in California painted up like patrol cars. Apparently the California Highway Patrol took exception, and now they have to paint them all black, rather than black and white. How anyone could mistake a Beetle for a CHP cruiser I don’t know, but at least they’re not facing a ten stretch like my mate. Serves him right for half-inching a bunch of jam sandwiches.
Squirrel fury
I walked into the office after a bank holiday drinking binge and was surprised to see a squirrel sitting on my desk. Unbeknown to me, Shirl’ had replaced by telephone with a novelty squirrel capable of answering and diverting my calls to save me time and to make me more relaxed. I’m not sure that it’s working though as I’m more anxious than ever because it keeps winking and smiling at me.
Smells like sales spirit
I tell you what there are some such influential people in the channel you know. Thing is, I’ve discovered that they aren’t always influencing people in the right way. I heard one very well known managing director used to test the loyalty of his sales people by whether or not they would drink shots of tequila through one of his socks. Utterly disgusting I know ….. sambucca is much nicer.
