Here’s another instance. We were receiving a potential customer group from overseas and our sales guys were going bonkers. Part of the visit preparations was to choreograph their return drive from our office back to their hotel. This was in this wonderful city in India where the roads are lovely and broad and where the 15 km journey was only 2 hours long.
The problem was, what to do if any of our honoured guests was to , ahem, feel the need to pee.
An one hour conference call across three time zones was set up to discuss this extremely important matter.
Various bright suggestions were aired and discussed in all seriousness. One worthy suggested that in Bangkok of the past, where traffic jams were notorious, a roaring business had started in er, portable loos. Apparently two wheelers were circulating on the roads offering distressed car occupants this service. When you felt the urge, you flag down one of these guys, who passes you a contraption through the window. You do the job in your car and he’ll take back the contraption for a fee. Our worthy wanted to know if we could import a couple of these magic gizmos from Thailand for the visit.
Another wonderful suggestion was to map out the various hotels along the drive and , if the need arose, be able to turn off into one of those and ahem “provide the service”. This was shot down on the grounds that when stuck in the traffic , this was unlikely to be very useful to our squirming guest.
Finally the solution agreed was not to provide bottles of water in the car, make the statutory warning before they left the office, and hope for the best !!
Oh, the nonsense we sometimes do in business …….
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17 comments:
ROFL.. portable loos and the rest.. surely the lengths corporates go to..
India mein gaddi baaju mein lagane ka aur bindas sadak kee side pe karne kaa.
No tension here!
Adesh - Hee Ho Ho. Two goras doing that would be a sight indeed. LOL.
@adesh- how simppal
That's funny. Two hours' trip isn't a long trip in big countries like India. LOL.
Yes I agree with what you say. When clients come over to our office, our bosses would make our team stare at our monitors, they would also pretend too walk about peering into monitors and give the general air of intelligence. And believe me if they could, they would have even made us "put finger to our lips" ... hee hee!! It is not that the clients are straitlaced or anything, its just our mentality!
:)
So, did they? :P :)
Cheers
preeti
ps: Cow story was hilarious!
:D wow what an idea..never heard before, n I don't think it'll be used in India. The foreigners should just have to learn how to, ahem, control themselves for sanity's sake.
All - Thanks. Glad that it gave you something to smile about on a Sunday.
@thoughtful train - your real name is lovely as well, but your online name is pretty and evocative. So with your permission, I'll keep addressing you so - more exercise to fingers notwithstanding !!
Thoughful train it is ... :)Other bloggers refer to me as either TFT, T2 or T3, so realised how pain it must be be to type the whole thing. :-)
LMAO... this one was awesome! Next time I see you, you HAVE to tell me who this bright sales guy was ;-)
@Aashish - LOL. Sure. Aren't you coming this side anytime ?
No plans so far...
LOL...that was a fun read!!!!
Like they say...
Have money
Will look for ways to spend it!!!!
Thanks Nancy.
Just catching up on this post .....hillarious ..hahahaha ...cannot imagine the plight of the guest if they had already consumed a bottle on the flight !!
LOL!! LOLLL @ LEB!!
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