Just come out of the nightmare of all meetings! Just went to a potential client meeting and spent the next hour with the clients budgie on my shoulder. The client seemed to think there was nothing wrong with this but I'm scared to death of birds (issues from childhood).
Tried to keep my composure but I couldn't wait to get out of there. The client said she'd get back to me so I'm guessing I didn't impress! Oh well
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John
Full Time Book-keeper, Dad of 3 Teenage Girls, Part-Time Taxi Driver :)
That was incredibly unprofessional of your client.
Phobia or not non of us want to be walking around with the excrement of some bird down the back of our suits.
If it had been me I would have just grabbed it and given it back. Appreciate that your phobia probably made that a non viable option.... How about flicking it off? Wouldn't go down well with the client but respect is supposed to be a two way thing and they obviously had non at all for you.
Shaun.
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Shaun
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Hmm. Probably not someone you'd want to work for, then, really.
I remember one guy who decided he wanted a new PC, and wanted me to come along to PC World to help him select something suitable. Fair enough.
He brought his dog along, though, and once I was in the car, he actually told the dog to get in and sit on my lap.
As it happens, I have no problems with dogs, rodents, creepy crawlies, or any other animals, so I didn't actually mind having the dog on my lap - but I did think it was rude of him to just assume I'd be okay with it.
How would he have liked it if I'd brought my pet tarantula to his office and instructed it to sit on his lap? (Okay, the timing's off - the tarantula was long gone by the time I knew him, but still!)
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Vince M Hudd - Soft Rock Software
(I only came here looking for fellow apiarists...)
VinceH wrote:How would he have liked it if I'd brought my pet tarantula to his office
I'm affraid that I'd have gone straight for the heel of my shoe with that one.
Spent too long in Thailand with Creepy crawlies the size of small rodents to have even the remotest amount of inclination for sharing the same living space with them.
They have their habitat, I have mine. So long as we don't encroach on each others turf I'm quite happy to share the planet.
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Shaun
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Ah, but isn't killing a dog (or horse) a criminal offence but kiilling an arachnid isn't.
Just joshin. I've got serious Buddhist tendancies and I even usher flies out of the house rather than killing them so even your spider would have been quite safe.... If perhaps locked inside a shoe box labelled darkest Africa!
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Shaun
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You aren't alone. I do that with wasps and bees. And of course I put spiders out. I've even been bitten by a spider that I picked up out of the bath to save from drowning (ungrateful little so and so). I still put him out, though.
Whereupon a member of my family decided it was an ugly looking brute, so had to do the heel thang.
I never did identify the specific species. It wasn't one I readily recognised, and I couldn't find it (based on my pre-squashed memory of what it looked like) in my book of British spiders.
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Vince M Hudd - Soft Rock Software
(I only came here looking for fellow apiarists...)
I had to ask someone to stop feeding birds at a beach front cafe. Not the most thoughtful place to attract birds as Shaun delicately pointed out lol -- but I was sorry to stop their enjoyment as the lady was obviously enjoying it and confined to a wheelchair.
Hope your new client doesn't use a carrier pigeon :)
Well... we've had some conversations on here. Bill are you suggesting Vince take a few sheep along to a client meeting incase they have a dog that he fancies shooting for sitting on his lap?
