Hi,

Yes...

About 12 years ago I joined a small contact management company. I didn't know they were struggling when I joined, but apparently they had lost a lot of money on a lucrative deal in Kuwait which went pop when the first Gulf war happened.

When I joined as Development Manager, the company had never performed a successful software installation that worked first time, had no quality control, change control etc etc. I managed to solve all these problems, but the company was still losing money, and the staff started leaving.

The MD asked me to stay behind one night so that we could move all the computers to a lockup he owned, because the bailiffs were coming the next day, and we were told not to park in the car park in case our vehicles were seized by the landlord.

I left when I realised that I was more concerned about getting to the bank first on payday so that my pay cheque wouldn't bounce, than I was about what i should be doing that day.

David