Who knows how it will turn out for him - Well, I hope. I recall the first time I worked at a big corporation as a director. Woo-hah. Turns out I was brought on board to take the fall for a $600K boondoggle spawned by an executive VP who was fired soon after I joined. An interesting lesson. I completed the project against strong odds, but was laid off after three months, first watching those in the chain of command above me get eliminated one by one.
This is not meant to be any predictor of Barry's future. I hope he succeeds in spades. Any job I ever took taught me a lot. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <authfriend@...> wrote: > > Wow. Barry *really* got his buttons pushed. It sure > doesn't take much to drive him over the edge into > paranoid hysterical raving these days. > > He must be nervous about this Paris gig. I hope his > new colleagues are quick to realize he has no sense > of humor about himself and takes being laughed at as > a deadly serious insult. We definitely do not want > him to blow up at them, get fired, and have to slink > back to Holland in disgrace. He's unpleasant enough > when he's pleased with himself. >
