I think I have a small crush on one of the managers at my group's client organization (I'm a consultant).
Puppy, you ever see something like this come up? Any advice?
Maybe I could ask her out for drinks when the project is wrapping up in a few months?
Oh yeah, let me tell you a story about one of my most interesting fires.
- Be me
- Have a middle aged dude that's a database wiz assigned to your team from someone else's team
- Be engaged in a large project
- Set up a meeting (ONE meeting) with this DB wiz guy and the client's DB admin
- Come to work the next day and find see the Client's DB admin's cube plastered in hand-made paper butterflies little bits of love poetry. Think to self: Either she's got a really romantic boyfriend, or someone's being creepy
- Be at your desk all of 5 minutes before the client's PM storms into your office saying "Did you see what the DB wiz guy did?"
- Jokingly ask if he already made the DB performance fixes in just one day and be informed that no, that apparently he had spent the last night plastering the client's DB Admin's cube with paper butterflies and love poetry, they had met at 2pm the day prior
- Call HR and tell them that you don't care what they have to do, you're going to have to fire a mother fucker
In general, I say DON'T. Do keep in touch, do grab informal cups of coffee or lunches, step it up as you're about to leave and after you're done. But while on project, stay the fuck out.
