Hal, Brett
You need to call your patients "clients"--they are a much better breed of folks--far more understanding.
Had a major arbitration today involving my client, Land O' Lakes and the Teamsters. Had my laptop sitting at my spot--and the background pic came up--the pic David K. took of me sitting in the uncomplated car with the arruminum pretty well sanded. So--the LOL HR Director from the twin cities comes up and asks me about it and I start telling him. Before you know it, The arbitrator, the union's attorney, his witness, our witnesses--they're all standing behind me pushing each other to look at my little laptop screen. The truckdrivers start telling me how to keep it clean, etc.--these are the guys that polish our milk trucks, another guy's talking about how rightious Fords are, another starts talking about his Chevy II bracket racer,..........etc.
So, the Western Regional LOL manager starts talking to the drivers about having a company car show for the yearly employee party--and they want my soon to be completed car there. Not one joke about attorney bills from the client, or how I trashed the wage rates from the truckdrivers. Cobras are like peace pipes.
