I recently completed 40 years of consulting and I thought it would be fun to share some of the bizarre things I have encountered.
Years ago, I had a contractor attend a seminar. He raised his prices and made somewhat of a budget but couldn’t understand why he still wasn’t making money. Upon some consultant digging, I found that the same amount of material was missing every day from the warehouse. I said the warehouse manager had to be stealing. He said it was impossible, that he was his best man in his wedding and they were deacons in the same church. When I
confronted the warehouse manager, he admitted it. Suddenly, I heard a shell inject into a shotgun behind my head. The owner was a hunter and retrieved it out of the closet. The secretary could see us through an office window and ran in screaming, “Don’t shoot him, I love him!” After some calming down, I discovered the long-term secretary and the long-term warehouse guy, who were both married, were having an affair. When their kids graduated from high school they planned to run away together. The good news was that all the money was recovered.