Driving

Posted on 2006/06/17 10:43:52 (June 2006).

[16th June 2006]

I have spent the day talking to this guy who is going to join our company as a salesman for the European markets.
I realized that I am a great person to speak to new prospects, in barely four hours, when he got to know that I was leaving ('cause my boss told him), he told me several times that he was very sad to hear that I was getting out of the company as he thought I was a very good person to work with...

Oh well, that'll have to wait for another life I believe.

It was interesting to act as a second in command, my boss hardly said anything, I was doing all the talking, explaining this and that, commenting what was good and what is bad in the way we followed the markets that he'll have to do tomorrow.
When we were alone talking about the product I also did tell him who is dangerous and who is a good person to count on, what is the "trend" in this company, how do they work and what to they consider good and bad, plus a lot of other info.
I wish that someone would give me about my new job, but that unfortunately I will not have the luxury of being talked about the company by an experienced employee, but rather the owner who'll tell me how great things are.

I then moved to Florence with my little 106, she' still doing a good job, but there might be the chance that I'll have to change it because it is too old and doesn't have one of those "green gas" exhauster system. In Florence it seems that these cars have been banned, if I get nicked driving one of those they'll take it away (on the top of having to pay an hefty fine).

The ride was good and gave me a good chance to think about this prospected proposal from the Japanese corporation. I started forming a business plan in my head, thinking about all the people that I know that I might contact in the future, dreaming of being awarded "best employee" in front of a storm of people looking up at me while the mega-president of the corporation bows and shakes my hand, all broadcasted on national TV in Japan.

BREAKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!

Wow, accident averted... I was day dreaming a bit here! :)
Well, there is nothing wrong about dreaming of course, the wrong part is that I don't have to start thinking too much about this possibility because if it all fails then I'll be disappointed beyond belief. I have sent my ideas to the Japanese contact, they will meet on Monday and something will certainly come out of that, we'll see... Then I have to convince my boss to leave me two more days in Japan to mind my own business possibly on the company's expenses... He called me when I was driving telling me that he REALLY REALLY appreciated all the things I have done with this newcomer, all the time that I gave him, etc etc .. That he's sorry to see me going that I have done a great thing for the company, blah blah blah ... So maybe I have a chance, I'll probably try an insolent gambit to ask him... I have nothing to loose in the end.

So at the moment I am not even mentioning this to my parents, the important thing is that I am going to be back in Florence and I have also to concentrate to find a house here...

Ah, a long drive is good for organising the mind! As long as there isn't too much traffic!! :))

Posted by Nigel at 2006/06/17 24:14:46.

I love driving for long distances... That's why I'd love to do a Coast to Coast in the US with the car... The real holiday is the trip for me! As a matter of fact there was much traffic in the highway which was a bit of a pain in the arse...

Posted by Lox at 2006/06/17 24:47:16.

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