I went into a new clients office to meet with them about a project they wanted done for their website.
When I walked in I found the president of the company talking to someone I had never seen before. They standing next to the photo copier and were talking about some ideas for the company website.
President of company: "This is Scott, he will be your point of contact within the company for this entire project. Under no circumstances do you allow anyone else to make any decisions about this project except for him. Ok so you guys take care of this, I have an important meeting I am late for."
(He then turns around and walks away in a hurry.)
(When he walked off I noticed that Scott looked quite puzzled, but I didn't think anything of it, because they were a new client and I hadn't met anyone other than the president of the company.)
ME: "Ok so should we go to your office or do you want to have some other people meet with us in the larger meeting room so we can go over the details and sign the paperwork."
Scott: "Uhm do I need to sign the paperwork? Because I am really not comfortable with that."
ME: "Yes. You need to sign it. Mr. Blackwood (the president) appointed you to be the key point man on this project with me."
Scott: "Ok, well what's going to happen if I don't sign it?"
ME: "Well, then we will have to reschedule another time when someone who is willing to be the point of contact can be present, and then they will need to sign it."
Scott: "Well ok I will sign it if you really need me to, But I should probably tell you that I don't even work here before we go any more into this."
ME: "WHAT?! HUH? What do you mean you don't work here? You were just talking about some this project with the president and he said you were going to be the point of contact for me."
Scott: "Yeah well he's obviously an idiot, because I just came in here to replace the toner in the copier. They called me for service about it yesterday morning. He saw that I had a copy of an HTML book in my hands and was reading the back of it. So he assumed I worked in IT or something. I didn't get a chance to explain to him that someone had left the book on the copier and I was just moving it out of the way."
