Tequila Sunrise

Hi Alyse,

I work for a small advertising firm just outside of Chicago and it's one of those 7 days a week, 80 hours a week type of jobs. I love my job so I don't mind. I finally took some time off last week and decided to head out to Oak Street Beach. I went with a couple of girlfriends, had a couple of tequila's and a GREAT time. Every thing was perfect except for this loser than kept eyeing me, I finally let him buy me a drink and took his number just to get him off my back. I don't think the number made it off the beach. Monday morning, I'm back at work feeling refreshed and ready to go for a meeting with a new client. Alyse, the loser was the client! I was hoping the ground would open up and take me but that didn't happen. He made it a point to tell everyone that we met on the beach and that it must be fate. My boss, the pig, ignored my dirty looks, told the loser I would be working personally with him and said, "whatever you kids do on your own time is your business". I felt like I was being pimped. Please help, this is a big client for the firm and my boss took away my no fraternization policy argument.

Pimped in Chicago, IL


Hey Pimped,

First, I can tell you that things would go a lot smoother if you would stop thinking of him as "the loser" and start thinking of him as "the client". Let him know that while you are flattered by his interest, you have a personal, no fraternization policy with past, present and future clients. That way you leave him with no hope for the future and you let him down because he is a client, not a "loser".

A. Fox
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

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