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About two months later, he decided I needed additional marketing support, and he
had a former employee at Calgon that could fill this need. “She” was a 28-year-old
single mother with a four-year-old son. Harry invited her to Overland Park for a
week – for an interview. I was asked to take her to lunch one-on-one. After

returning to the office, Harry snagged me immediately and motioned me to his
office. “What do you think?” he asked, expecting a very positive reply. I told him
she was totally void in marketing skills, knowledge and experience. He disagreed
and told me to hire her and to pay her $30,000 per year with some bonus pay along
with relocation and temporary living expenses - and to have the offer on his desk
tomorrow morning. [Chuckle, chuckle!] I just lost the apartment for our regional
managers’ meetings, and my budget took another unwarranted hit. I drafted a job

description sheet, which stated that she was now in charge of the studio and was to
be supportive of all and any requests by Harry, the director of marketing, and me.

At mid-year, Harry wanted to impress the sales and marketing directors and their
wives with his talent and expectations. He invited us to the Broadmoor Hotel in
Colorado Springs for five days. He espoused his grand plans and proclaimed to our
wives that they should understand why we would be spending additional time at

work and not at home. This was not well received by the wives, especially Sue.
Harrys’ wife was in attendance, and she made a few cutting remarks, but they just
rolled off his back.

Upon our return, Harry said it was important that I understood what he really
wanted and needed to happen in order for him to get his bonus. He said that it
would be best if we had discussions off campus, after hours; the Double Tree Hotel

lounge became our meeting place. What it ended up being was a drinking session
for Harry and his female friends with the bar tab being about $100. I paid because
it would be on my expense account, which he signed; it never had to be seen by
headquarters.

It took about four weeks when the accounting department contacted HR and said I

had a drinking problem on the company dole. HR talked to Harry, and he said he
would take care of it. He then invited other managers to go out drinking with him
and his female friends, so they could take care of the $100 drinking bill. This way
it was not so noticeable, and I did not appear to be a drunk on the company
expense account. It became a problem with Curtis Spencer, the marketing director,

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