TFK International Business Travel Thread

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I thought only DĂĄithĂ­ Ó SĂ© was impressed that somebody has come “all the way from Amerikay”

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that most worrying aspect is that you seem to take this thread quite seriously to convince everyone you are some kind of Billy Big Balls while most others use it to take the piss


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I hope none of our international business travellers have been discommoded by today’s air traffic unpleasantness in France

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why do you find that worrying?

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because I’m a worrier, Bill


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@briantinnion paged me at midday to report that he’d safely arrived in the city and was having a quick coffee prior to his client luncheon. He didn’t have time to check in on this thread but asked me to oblige. Hence this belated post.

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Wonderful lunch in one of Gordon Ramsey’s establishments. Now awaiting departure of my return flight at LCY. Should be back behind my desk and ready for a night’s work at 5pm.

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What you have to eat?

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I had a rib burger of some sort. I’m not an adventurous eater so stuck with a safe option. My lunch companions went with various types of fish I’d never heard of. All in all it was slightly pricy for what we got but I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again you can’t put a price on building a face to face relationship with a client.

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Fuck sake the people we are sending out to represent Ireland Inc. A fucking burger in a Gordon Ramsay restaurant.

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I’d say the brits got a great laugh out of the thick paddy looking for a burger and probably “red sauce” for his chips.

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+1 they must love making monkeys out of our “high financiers”

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You’ll never ever ever close a proper deal with that embedded in your DNA.

Sure, you’ll never get burned either and you’ll tip along making a decent middle class income
 but when it comes to landing the deal that could have propelled you into the indispensable category sadly you will fall short, you wont even see it.

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[quote=“Kinvara’s Passion, post: 844003, member: 686”]You’ll never ever ever close a proper deal with that embedded in your DNA.

Sure, you’ll never get burned either and you’ll tip along making a decent middle class income
 but when it comes to landing the deal that could have propelled you into the indispensable category sadly you will fall short, you wont even see it.[/quote]
+1. Off that menu I would have gone for the lobster surf and turf and let them know that they weren’t dealing with a penny pinching backwoodsman.

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@Fagan ODowd[/USER] is the Eugene McGee of this thread. The modern international business game has outgrown him so he rails against both it and the new breed of high achievers such as @[USER=6]briantinnion. All the time whingeing about what’s wrong with the here and now and saying it was better in his day. Fuck off.

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What a surprise. The other globe trotting innocent jumps in.

I never said it was better in my day. It wasn’t. I was just chortling at the notion that a gom who ordered a burger in a Gordon Ramsay restaurant thought that he had made a big impression. I’d say he made an impression alright.

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You need to order “off menu” in those circumstances. Makes the other lads second guess themselves.

Check a dish that was on the menu and is not on the current menu. Few days before you go ring them and say you will be there in a day or two and really enjoyed that dish and could they prepare it for you again.

makes you look like a master of the universe in front of the other chumps

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We have some clients over from Japan for the last 3 days-I think I will take them down to the chipper in Blackrock tomorrow for a cod and chips.

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Wonder what raw cod in batter tastes like?

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I don’t know, mate but it will impress the fuck out of our Eastern friends I’ve no doubt.