Attorney - Well, Mr. Sillot, you've really put your nose in it this time.
Randy - Just call me Randy.
Attorney- Is that your name or a description of your predatory nature?
Randy - Wow, Councilor, you need to get a little perspective here.
Let me tell you what happened; it's not at all what you are thinking.
Attorney - That's fair enough. Go for it.
Randy- I started work at Blaster Vacuum Cleaners three years ago here in Bloomington. I am the CEO: Head honcho, the plant manager. A head hunter recruited me out of Cleveland. I had worked for Kodak in Buffalo until the film industry literally hit the can. I taught management at the U of Colorado for the years in between. I'd written 'Turning a Business Around,' a best seller in its category, and the 'Pick of the Month' in Business Week.
So there I was, breathing in the fresh cool air of mountain-high Denver? And I had a roster of eager students.
Attorney - Let me interrupt for a moment. Did you have any sexual liaisons with students there?
Randy - What does that have to do with anything?
Attorney - It shows a pattern of behavior.
Randy- Not really, just an occasional blow job from any female who was on the line between passing and failing.
Attorney - I figured. Go on with your story.
Randy - Where the fuck was I?
Attorney - There is no need for profanity.
Randy - Who the fuck are you, Little Lord Fauntleroy?
Attorney - Who I am is not the issue, and it's who you are that we are discussing.
Randy - OK, sorry about that. You watch college basketball?
Attorney - No
Randy - Well, then you've never seen a Denver cheerleader, blond blue-eyed, down on her knees with her mouth opened and her hand unzipping your pants.
Attorney - No, never
Randy - Jeez, I'm sorry for you. Are you gay?
Attorney - Please get back to your explanation Mr. Smellit.
Randy - Yeah, sorry about that, getting personal, I mean. I have nothing against faggots. Hell, my brother-in-law's best friend died of Aids back when we were in college. And my name is Sillot, not Smellit.
Attorney - Please, sir
Randy - Said he caught it from a toilet...
Attorney - Sir! Mr. Sillot, or Smellit, whatever!
Randy - Ok, let me start again. OK?
Attorney - Please continue.
Randy - Did you just say cunt? Oh, just kidding.
So I got the job at the Vacuum Plant. The place needed a turnaround, and I was the guy to do it. It turns out the son of the previous manager was stealing vacuums and selling them on the internet to finance his drug habit. Out the door, he went. Never did get him to return the units stolen, but the owner, Mr. Blackmun, told me to cool it to avoid a scandal.
I spent a good deal of time working alongside the assemblers on the floor. We imported most of the shit from China, and we just had to assemble it. It's cheaper that way, in parts, it lowers the import tax.
I got this idea of opening a selling point at the factory. There was a storage space with an outside entry, and I got that fixed up with a nice sign and all three models on display. But I needed a salesperson. Right?
Attorney - I guess so.