Thursday, September 06, 2007

The Keebler elves show their true colors

Dave of Bluffdale came into the warehouse today looking for an order we didn't have. He was upset about that, but he and I were able to have a nice chat despite his fumes. I suppose at the start that this was mostly because he probably knew I wouldn't have been high up enough to know anything about his missing order, but before long I was able to win his better nature by making a social connection.

"Do you know a Sara Franco?" I asked him. Sara had mentioned him when I first told her the name of the company I work for.

"Yeah!" he said; it turns out he's her neighbor! "I'm two or three houses away from the Francos."

"I've doorbell ditched in that area. . . ."

Dave laughed at that part, and after talking for another minute or so, I'd successfully built decent rapport with a big name in our sector of the company. I doubt it will do much beyond just that, but I've always been a firm believer in the philosophy that it's not what you know, but who you know.

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What are the Keebler elves teaching our children?



5 comments:

Dr. Paleo Ph.D. said...

Networking, eh? Good, good.... I just hope you don't have any mobsters in that network...no Falcones or anything. :-P

How is Sara, btw? I haven't heard from her in the longest time.

Nathan said...

Eh, I've got a bit of everything in the network. It's pretty nice; if I ever need anything, I've always got someone to call. Even the bad ones are of service from time to time; those guys aren't always low-lives. 8-)

But yeah, Sara's good. Her Internet's still acting funky, I think, but I see her pretty often nowadays, and things are fine.

Dr. Paleo Ph.D. said...

I figured it was an internet problem; it seemed to coincidental for the Franco siblings to both dissappear in February.

Say hi from me when you get the chance!

Corky Marie said...

i love the francos. :D <3

Dr. Paleo Ph.D. said...

They rock! Both Sara and Jared! And their cousins....