I am grateful the national sales
manager visiting me this week is not a zeke. Let me explain: In my engineering sales
job, I often have application engineers and/or sales managers visit for a few
days, and I set up meetings with my clients here in Connecticut. If I’ve never
met one of these visitors before, I usually keep him away from my clients until
I’m sure he won’t cause more harm than good, something that actually happened
many years ago. (It’s a long story. Maybe I’ll write a column about it
some day. For now let’s just say if you thought of the most annoying character
you’ve ever seen on a TV sitcom, this guy was him times ten. He had an amazing
gift for making people cringe.)
Anyway, the fella visiting this week
is new to us, and I didn’t have a chance to “test drive” him (um, that sound a
little weird), so I had to set up meetings with my clients sight unseen. Well,
it turns out Mr. Murphy is a friendly, funny Irish-Catholic from Detroit, and
my clients loved him. So I am grateful it turned out OK. (And no, that's not a picture of him below.)
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