From the audience – How NOT to impress clients.
The Director of Sales in her company was entertaining clients in their boardroom hoping to woo them for a lucrative contract.
The meeting went well until they broke for lunch.
The Director, in his infinite wisdom refused his secretary’s offer to order in food from the specialty sandwich shop in their office tower. Instead, when noon rolled around, he proceeded to take their guests down the freight elevator to the loading dock area of the building.
(Yum, there’s nothing that builds up an appetite like the smell of a good docking area, fragrant with the wafting aroma of dumpsters!)
He led them in through the shop’s storeroom, weaving around crates and then behind the staff on the deli-line, past the cashier to stand in line with the rest of the customers.
Needless to say they didn’t get the contract.
