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Subject: [Leica] when leica (almost) hired me
From: richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu Jan 24 14:37:01 2008
References: <4268A9826B9DBE4D938B902A6BC803085A7382@exchange8.asc.local>

Sigh, your slacking killed Leica!!!

At 02:11 PM 1/24/2008, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
>Actually, the story is a little sadder, like i dropped the ball. After
>one of my fun-filled presentations where I proved the leica Tough as
>Nails -- a Leica rep said "Ooh, hey, we'd be really interested in
>working with you! your style is fresh and brash!" (they didn't actually
>say fresh and brash) "Here's my card! Call me!"
>
>and then I called ... like two months later, and he was gone -- back to
>Solms, or off to Hasselblad, who knows -- and his replacement was on the
>way in and I should call back in two weeks and talk to the new guy ...
>so four weeks later I left a voicemail for the new guy saying "Hey! The
>iron was hot a couple months ago and like the dude said I should call
>you and like .... strike now ... or something."
>
>That was the end of it.
>
>I slacked my way out of THAT one!

// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, 
please use richard at imagecraft.com) 


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