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Subject:Re: Researching potential clients From:Kathi Jan Knill <Kathi -dot- Knill -at- TEMPLATE -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:25:04 -0400
First let me say that I enjoyed your humor. It is refreshing to
take a break from work and get to laugh (without having to leave
the office).
As far as research. As them to overnight you some brochures and
information on their company. I am sure that if they are legit,
they would do that in a heartbeat. If they hesitate or refuse,
I'd take that as a BIG RED FLAG!
imho,
Kathi Jan Knill
Sr. Technical Writer
Template Software, Inc.
kathi -dot- knill -at- Template -dot- com
I always wanted to be somebody.
I realize now that I should have been more specific.
----- Original Message -----
From: <DHICKEY -at- ALIS -dot- COM>
To: <TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 1:08 PM
Subject: Researching potential clients
> Greetings!
>
> I received a call from a consulting firm located in Germany
yesterday
> ("You're calling from Germany? The country?!?") and they wanted
to know if I
> would be available for a 6 to 8 week contract with one of their
German
> clients. They would pay my return airfare, give me a furnished
apartment, a
> car, a computer, and pay for my meals and stuff, and pay me!
>
> However, this deal sounds too good to be true. I've checked out
their
> website, but unfortunately it's all in Dutch. Still, it looks
legit, but
> what if it's a front for a white slavery ring? I can just see
me stepping
> off the plane in Germany and getting jumped by a large no-neck
man named
> Gunther, he ties me up, and the next thing I know, I'm being
sold to an
> Arabian sheik as a man-slave (I look rotten in manacles and a
loin cloth,
> believe me).
>
> Or maybe I'm just being paranoid (Duh! Ya think?). But how much
research
> would you do to find out if a client is legit (especially since
they are
> overseas) and how would you do it?
> --
> Be seeing you,
>
> Dave
> ---------------------------------------------
> John David Hickey
> Montreal, Quebec, Canada eh?
>
> dhickey -at- alis -dot- com
>http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hills/7829/
> wk: 514-747-2542 ext.: 317
> pg: 514-205-9209
>
> They say that the pen is mightier than the sword.
> But if you miss a deadline, you'd better bring the sword.
> ---------------------------------------------
> Don't confuse my opinion with my employer's.
> Each exists in blissful ignorance of the other.
>
>
>
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