Re: Researching potential clients

[Kathi Jan Knill <Kathi -dot- Knill -at- TEMPLATE -dot- COM>]

That would be ...Ask them to overnight some brochures to you.....

----- Original Message -----
From: Kathi Jan Knill <Kathi -dot- Knill -at- template -dot- com>
To: <TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: Researching potential clients

> 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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