Had a client who thought it was OK to stiff me because I drove a Porsche! NM

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"Hide the Porsches!"
hoppy44 - Thursday, 4 October, 2012, at 2:04:42 pm

Interesting story about Steve Jobs...

[NeXT software engineer Randy] Adams, using some of the cash he’d earned from the sale of his company, bought a Porsche 911 at the same time Steve Jobs did. To avoid car-door dings, they parked near each other–taking up three parking spaces between them. One day Jobs rushed over to Adams’ cubicle and told him they had to move the cars.

“I said, ‘Why?,’ and he said, ‘Randy, we have to hide the Porsches. Ross Perot is coming by and thinking of investing in the company, and we don’t want him to think we have a lot of money.’”

They moved the cars around to the back of NeXT’s offices in Palo Alto, Calif. and Perot invested $20 million in the company in 1987 and took a seat on the board.

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Re: "Hide the Porsches!"
Jim 'n' SC - Friday, 5 October, 2012, at 3:58:12 pm

I never drive my Porsche when meeting with contractors for the same reason. Always drive my Toyota truck.

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Had a client who thought it was OK to stiff me because I drove a Porsche! *NM*
TheFarmer - Friday, 5 October, 2012, at 9:01:03 pm

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You had, unfortunately for you, a dishonest client who used your Porsche as an excuse for....
MarcW - Saturday, 6 October, 2012, at 1:17:44 pm

his dishonesty.

Sincerely,

MarcW.

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Re: Had a client who thought it was OK to stiff me because I drove a Porsche!
Guenter in Ontario - Saturday, 6 October, 2012, at 5:10:31 pm

Did the client tell you that, or do YOU think that's why he stiffed you?

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Had a client who thought it was OK to stiff me because I drove a Porsche! *NM*

Had a client who thought it was OK to stiff me because I drove a Porsche! NM