The Getaround

Here is how it will happened - because it's happened this way before . . .

The owner, getting older, semi-retired, will ask about something: something that is pertinent, that he cares about, that is "troublesome."

"Troublesome"? Yes - to the new management that the owner hired-on. They have agreed to "maintain your vision," but can't wait till he gets so blind that the "vision" is too narrowed to mean anything. They have been slowly helping along that process, isolating him from information, shaping the issues in ways that keep out "unnecessary" alternatives - one could almost say that they lie to him, but that would be as false as some of their accusations against those that they have persuaded to "voluntarily terminate" themselves. No, they don't lie - they Getaround.

Getaround.

"What's the status on this, Bill?"

"We're getting around to that, Bob. It's important, like you said: 'don't want to jump into it unprepared."

"It has to be handled!"

"It will be - it is - we're meeting on this tomorrow and-"

"I'm not here tomorrow."

"Well, you want us to get on this right away."

". . . Yes."

But the meeting, with the owner not there, will never happen. And, for the next two or three times the owner and the new management meet, there will be other things to talk about. And this won't be talked about - or dealt with - ever. Until it wilts away, or the deadline passes and it's too late, or the owner brings it up again ---

And "we're getting right on it" again.

The Getaround.