Credit crunch
It's an ill wind as they say.

Professionally* it's made the lazy box-ticking engineers and buyers in the companies I've been trying to get into for the last 16 months (before they all had to count the pennies) sit up and take notice that I CAN supply them for less than my biggest competitor. Therefore I'm making a dent in my competitors' profits (and making a nuisance of myself by debunking their claims to "worldwide patents", "innovative technology" and "qualified support staff").

This sudden flurry of competition means that the American director responsible for the UK of my biggest competitor has made three personal calls to my mobile and four to my home number to see if I fancy "A chat about future prospects".

So I'm being headhunted, Go me!

I have no debts and have had no credit for the past 6 years. My rent is pitifully small for my 1100 square foot flat and my car is fully expensed by my employer.

Life is good.

*Yeah right! ME - professional!
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 15:54, 1 reply)

I hate you.
Not that I actually know you of course, just that I hate you.
( gareth_alien will be human again at, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 8:56, closed)