Tim isn't his real name

    Tim isn't his real name but he almost cost my company a contract.  You could say Tim is a waffle, chicken, and ribs type of person.  You know the stereotype, a person who doesn't turn down food especially if it's offered for free.  Like at this one company that said he could have some catered Chinese food.  He calls me on my phone and asks  "Do you want me to BUILD you a plate!"  I say no thanks.  I show up about an half hour later to pick his ass up. (Tim lost his privilege to drive the company vehicles after being called in three times in two weeks. So now he had to be dropped off and picked up like a school child)  He comes walking out of the company with a paper plate stacked about  9 inches high of chow mien.  Stabbed into the chow mien are 6 chicken sticks.  Surrounding the chow mien is a moat of some sort of beef dish.  Riding on top of the beef moat there were 5 chicken egg rolls.  I couldn't believe it!!!  W.T.F  After he gets in the truck I proceed to give his stupid ass a lecture about trying not to accept food from a company even when it's offered.  I explain that it doesn't look good for our company to be taking hand outs.  Image wise that is.  Doesn't mean you can't do it, just means you should really try to avoid it.  Of course Tim disagrees.  He feels that if it's offered then there's no reason not to take it.  Why else is it being offered.  He has a point.  I tell him that if he wants free food then he should take a walk down to the sup kitchen and build himself a potato plate.  He starts to get mad and says, "But it's free and it's being offered" I scream back to him, "I mean really what's your problem Tim, you don't want to think of yourself in that way."  Tim pulls off a piece of chicken and takes a bite, and with a mouth full of foul he screams back "It's a total different thing!!"  (Pieces of chicken carcass hitting my interior windshield)  "So you won't go to a sup kitchen for free food because you're not poor and don't want to be perceive as being poor, but you have no fuckin' problem Building yourself a plate 9 inches high with all the Chinese toppings.  You couldn't just take a regular plate of food, say thanks and be on your god dam way.  How do you think they perceive us as a company when you do that."  "But they said take as much as you want" he shouted back slurping a Chinese noodle in the process.  "It's because of person like you that a company like that will think twice before giving us anything.  Including a renewal of the contract.  After seeing you stack your plate how do they know we're also not doing the same thing with parts and/or contract prices"  "What ever man!" was his retort before picking up a three finger tip serving of chow mien.  That wasn't the day he almost cost us a contract.  That was me just setting you, the reader, up for the next paragraph.  Which indeed almost did cost us a contract.

    I drop Tim off at a company that has annual printer cleanings.  I believe there were about 40 printers inside that needed to be cleaned.  His first stupid move after checking in with the receptionist and getting a paper name tag that says visitor on it was to head straight to lunch room for some free lunch.  This is a small research company maybe 100 scientists and employees so lunches are free.  The lunches aren't really free, the employees do pay for them out of their paychecks.  Tim builds himself a plate and takes a seat.  When approached by two employees who work there.  He tells them to mind their own business.  When approached by a third person he tells them "What's your problem?  Don't worry about who I am!"  After eating his meal, he starts to clean the printers.  After finishing the first floor of a two story building he walks out the back door for a smoke. He then tries to regain entry into the building.  But he can't because he walked out an employee exit and didn't have a key card to get back in.  So instead of walking around the building and back thru the front lobby he walks to his left, hops over a bush and starts tapping on the tinted windows.  He leans forward into the glass, cups his eyes with his hands to block out his reflection and stares in on this lady in her office.  This lady is the Human Resources manager!!  He keeps tapping and then points to the employee door to be let in.  The HR manager turns back to her computer and continues working.  Tim then starts to pound on the glass and starts screaming thru the window "I know you see me!!  Let me in!!  Come on!!  What's your problem!"  At this point the IT tech sees Tim out the employee exit door window and lets him back in.  Tim continues to clean the printers without incident that I'm aware of.  However my company does get a call from IT manager saying that they do not want Tim out the following day to finish cleanings and they are seriously thinking about pulling the contract.  The HR lady felt threatened.  I pick up Tim without knowing about what happened and Tim doesn't say anything.  It's the final straw for my boss.  He has the service manager fire Tim the following morning.  What does Tim do!!!!  He drives back out to this company and demands to see the HR manager.  He believes that she is a racist and was responsible for costing him his job.  The IT manager for this company takes Tim outside and talks with him for about an hour to calm him down.  When Tim leaves the manager calls our company and tells us what happened.  Our company ends up giving this IT manager some free hockey tickets to the San Jose Sharks game.  The next year the company did renew the contract without incident, but soon after that it went under due to the technology crash.

......Tim has a chip on his shoulder the size of Texas,  Fuck you Tim where ever you're at!!