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Archive for the 'Nightmare on Client Street' Category



The Art of Seagull Management

Published on March 16, 2006

On many an engagement, you will find your typical, total dickhead partner or principal who hands off project management duties to one or more senior managers (and this is what should happen) but the dickhead partner or principal (or the senior manager) doesn’t do a good job of keeping open enough communication about status of [...]


On Fat Chicks & Large Organizations

Published on March 8, 2006

One of the most puzzling questions that has baffled mankind since the beginning of time is:
What do fat chicks and extremely large organizations have in common?
Today is your lucky day; it turns out they have a lot in common. But first, to effectively answer this question, we need to discuss the common misconception of how [...]


You Moved My Bag

Published on March 7, 2006

“You moved my bag”, the You Kicked My Dog of airline travel.
Why must fellow flyers be so adverse to you moving their rollerboard bags about 6 inches to the left in order to fit yours nicely in the overhead stow?
Colleagues of mine and I are generally on the same flight home every week. The [...]