If Sid has two working brain cells, he's thinking the same thing.  Plus he's already got the "chain of command" inroad with Isabelle, so his row will be easier to hoe.  I wouldn't trust Sid if I were you.  He's a sneaky fucker who I don't think is really as dumb as he looks.  I wouldn't put it past him to willfully play "puppet" right up until it comes time to write the report (or whatever it is you people do).  Then his name goes on first, as "leader" and you get included with the "et al."  Hell with that!  Sid's only value is to provide a conduit to Isabelle.  No more "free help" until he sets up a meet.  Once you have a direct line to one of the big boys, then you can marginalize Sid and take all the credit.  By this time next year, you'll be making twice as much with a promotion doing half the work and Sid will be a broken, shell of man trading handjobs for crack in south Boston.

 

Plus, you're a way faster runner than Sid.  So there's that too.

 

Oh, and T-shirts.  Every team needs T-shirts.  And a mission statement.  And a charter.  And an executive summary of the mission statement and the charter, so the big guys can see you've done something and nod approvingly.

 <Paris Hilton voice>  that's Hot!  <Paris Hilton voice>

You need to work flex the golden pipes in, too.  That's my favorite one.

So far so good.  Sid replied with, "Okay, so what should our team name be?"

So I gave him a funny team name and it appears he's going with it.

This could work out pretty well for me I now see.  Sid will be the virtual team leader but really he'll be my puppet.  The dynamic here is Sid reports to a guy who reports to Isabelle.  I don't report to any of these people but they all basically out rank me.  They are mostly corporate muckety-mucks and I am field.  But Isabelle draws a lot of water in this town.  For some reason my boss nominated me to be the field representative on this virtual team with all these people to do some high visibility shit and go to work on one of our competitors with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch.  Get medieval on their ass.  In general I don't have time for it since I'm field and actually have to do shit like generate revenue but if I can get others to do most of the work and attach my name to it and get some visibility with the higher powers maybe it will be okay.

Go Sid!

 

Ok I give up what language is the above in? so far I've tried Polish, Latvian, Cornish and Latin, funnily enough I recognise a lot of the words I just have a problem with the order they are in.
 
For example "get medieval on their ass" should it be "get medieval up their ass" as I know in medieval times there was a trend towards red hot pokers?

http://thepsychicinvestigator.moonfruit.com/#/castle-rising-norfolk/4530780645

Heh.  A pair of pliers and a blowtorch.

And by the way, holy shit this call is painful.  How do corporate types do this shit all day?  I bet I could go for a run and be back for the wrap up and nobody would know the difference...this is probably worth a try.

  treadmill. 

 

63º F and sunny.  Call over, buh-bye.