That moment when your client delegates a vendor meeting to you, and you find yourself in a room with a competitor trying to win the work you're doing

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I'd raise that flag with leadership. Serious conflict of interests

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Yeah, it got more awkward from there onwards. Other party had 3 senior guys, 2 of which had flown in for this opportunity. The session kind of died out when after 30 they realized that they were indeed talking to other contractors (half their age)... But we legitimately tried to stay as neutral as possible and reported back cc'ing them even on the "findings" for as far we had any...

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Sounds like a passive aggressive way for the client to tell the competitor to fuck off.

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Was the competitor one of us?

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How'd you play that? Lead them on and don't tell them you're hamstringing them or tell them to pound sand?

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Awkward turtle moment.

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Dis the client do this on purpose to get a discount?

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Awk...

😂😂😂

Agreed. I was joking...

How long did it take you to realize that you were talking to competitors? Also, this is reminiscent of the Egyptians delivering Pompey's head to Caesar.

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