Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After dinner, Mike (the Canadian techie) takes the wheel of the rental car. We are on the way back to the hotel. Six minutes later, he announces that we are lost. His attempt to take a more efficient route had failed. "It didn't make sense to go south first when we want to go north," he explains. Tom informs me that riding in a car driven by a consultant is not always the best idea, since they have a strange propensity for fender-benders. Not only do consultant drivers want to get where they're going as fast...
...arrive at the hotel without incident. Since consultants do much of their work on the road, it is important for the accommodations to be tolerable, and this place is much more than that. Billing itself as a "small luxury inn" the hotel of the PRTM team is fully equipped: well-stocked mini-bar, extensive room service menu, Martha Stewart Living on the coffee table and a phone next to the toilet. But the team doesn't have time to enjoy these amenities tonight--they have an early start tomorrow morning...
...Wang was concerned that I would not be able to rouse myself from my hotel bed in time. "Are you going to be OK tomorrow morning? We usually meet in the lobby at 7:45. Learning to get up early was one of the hardest things about this job!" Shih-yu Wang has been out of MIT for approximately five months and assures me that when you're used to having your first class at 10 a.m., 7:45 is mighty early. But my wake-up call is right on time and I make it to the lobby before anyone...
...Wang, accompanied by the rest of the consultants assigned to her project, meets me in the lobby at 7:44. We head over to the client's headquarters, about 15 minutes away from the hotel. Seven minutes later, Conrad (the marketing guy) pulls the rental car into the parking lot. The sprawling building before us looks too industrial to be the central office for a major manufacturing company. There is no "campus" a la Microsoft or Nike, no sculptured lawns or basketball courts. We enter the building and make our way through a sea of cubicles (c. 1970). The atmosphere...
...specific, Georgs, 61, of Reading, Mass., has been chiseling since 1994, when he relinquished his job as an executive chef in a Boston hotel...