Hospital Pass

Attended a meeting with a client in HK today, at the request of local partner who had asked me to accompany him. Apparently we have put some "hard yards" with the client and they had not given us any meaningful work. Could I help to ease the problem?

Pitched up at clients office in Central to find that partner had excused himself to participate in an urgent conference call (a likely story!).

I dutifully had my head ripped off by the tax director who told me what a useless firm we were: unresponsive, not proactive, technically deficient, no access given to foreign offices etc etc.

Now I can see why the partner on the job did a runner.

No doubt I will be blamed for wrecking a profitable relationship - yet another day in the life of the Gweilo Running Dog.