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OK, $FamousPerson shows up at reception asking for an employee who has recently been escorted off the premises with their possessions in a black plastic bag (be
by keithpeter 11y ago
OK, $FamousPerson shows up at reception asking for an employee who has recently been escorted off the premises with their possessions in a black plastic bag (been there, got the video and t-shirt). You sort of know that random $FamousPeople showing up is part of $BusinessAsUsual. You have just realised that you have apparently no procedures whatsoever for booking appointments for personal visits to the building (e.g. popping something on a corporate Google calendar or Outlook).
So, you get $HighRankingPerson - preferably one with good empathy and small talk skills - to meet $FamousPerson, explain that, unfortunately, there has had to be a change of plan today. Meanwhile $TrustedPersonalAssistant has Googled $FamousPerson, worked out likely food preferences and made contact with $FamousPerson's PR people/publisher/agent/whatever. Nice restaurant booked for lunch. $FuturePlans discussed over (rather good wine | excellent smoothies | extremely expensive vintage cheese and crackers | exceptional artisian toast). Limousine booked to get $FamousPerson back to airport in time for trip home.
Not rocket science is it really? (I speak as one who has been told to F$$k Off by Royalty).
- pvg 11y agoDo you see any famous person bitterly complaining and starting petitions because their AMA fell through? It was probably quite inconvenient for the few people who got affected by this at the time but it hardly merits a subreddit let alone sitewide meltdown.
- keithpeter 11y ago$FamousPeople over here never complain in public. But, you know, the temperature changes. Small signals &c. Perhaps it is different in US. I personally have no big interest in this but Steven Hawkins is a National Treasure and we do need to present a positive view of science to the yoot.
- debacle 11y agoSeveral celebrities and scientists complained on twitter because their IAMAs were abruptly interrupted or cancelled.
- pbreit 11y agoBased in schedule and timing should we be able to figure out who $FamousPerson is/was?
- jonlucc 11y agoOT, but is there somewhere I can read your story of having been told to to F$$k off by Royalty?
- keithpeter 11y agoNo. This will give you an idea... http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prince-philip-quotes-relive-classic-5042787 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prince-philip-quotes-re... Edit: apologies for duplicate. Could not see the original reply
- PhantomGremlin 11y agoThis is comedy gold. As an American who isn't an Anglophile, I didn't know that Prince Philip was so "colorful". People used to make fun of George W. Bush, but Philip takes it to a whole other level. In half of those comments he's just the village idiot, in the other half he's a master of British humour. Edit: of course, opinions will vary as to which comment belongs in which category.
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