Consulting: Never, Ever Do This
By Daniel Miessler on April 3rd, 2007: Tagged as Consulting | Humor
I was at a client recently who’s business is providing electricity to a local city. We were trying to figure out what caused a piece of hardware to fail and as I was going over options in my head I asked him, “Hmm…perhaps a power surge?”
He looked at me like I asked if his mother might have a penis. After an uncomfortable pause he responded very deliberately, “Yeah…we don’t have those here…”
Important Safety Tip: Never imply that your clients who work in the power business might have been the victim of an electricity surge.
They don’t take kindly to it.