Today I had an important meeting with my client and their primary vendor on my project. The Senior VP, Operations and the Vice Chairman of the Board of the company were coming to see how their equipment had been deployed, and tour our facility. None of my clients senior staff was available, and we had tried to reschedule, but being as this was last minute (being scheduled last friday) I volunteered to be there with the system adminstrator, a very nice woman who really has become familiar with the vendors lack of cooperation. For example, in reviewing what has been done before I got on the project, the vendor had indicated that because their solution runs on proprietary software, they would manage the Operating system upgrades(patches) and the anti-virus, which our network people agreed to; yet I can find no evidence of the vendor having done anything. But I digress.
So they show up, take a tour with the engineer, and then we meet them at the end of the tour, and go to the conference room. So there are these gentlemen, the local area representaive, the two big shots and the local service manager, who we deal with all the time during the project to ensure the equipment is installed to spec before we test and certify for acceptance. Its a nice meeting, and we exchange a lot of information, and my colleague taps my foot with hers under the table, and I glance at her, she indicates I should face the man across form me. He smiles broadly and is very pleasant, and it dawns on me that while I am talking to him, he is fixated at a point about foot lower than my eyes...namely my chest(see above)
I was wearing a purple sweater, and logan green wool slacks, and matching jacket. I didn't think it was inappropriate, and so after the meeting I talked to Jane and asked her what that was all about, and she smiled and said " thats why I wore a turtleneck today- that guy is a real creep!"
I guess, but its a little atypical of how I am treated at most business meetings.
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