[Mick]

[quote author=Mick link=topic=16303.msg183818#msg183818 date=1482967489]

The #2 partner in the life sciences practice was central to our efforts.  His name and face were very prominent on the proposal, on handouts, on posterboards, on our web site; all of which we'd spent months preparing.  He was going to be the ringleader and the key relationship partner.

At 8:20 a.m., he resigned with no notice to join our key competitor...who happened to be the key competitor for that specific prospective client. 

That's how it feels to me.  Like someone who left with a job unfinished and who didn't give a sxxt about his teammates.

You're certainly entitled to feel that way but the analogy isn't apt.

The inexcusable situation that you experienced is akin to McCaffrey quitting the team this Friday morning and somehow suiting up for North Carolina in the afternoon instead.

A more apt analogy would be your colleague resigning several weeks prior to the big presentation and going to work for a much bigger firm in another part of the country that competes for an entirely different group of clients.
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I'll respectfully disagree.  UNC was never a competitor of Stanford's for McCaffrey's services, and could never be a competitor for McCaffrey's services.  The competitor I'm referring to is the NFL.  McCaffrey quit, specifically and in his own words, to prepare for the NFL.  So we lose his services, both next year and the remainder of this year, to the NFL.

And the deeper part of the story is not the identity of his ultimate employer.  The deeper meaning is that he prepared with the team, was taught and raised (professionally speaking) by team members, with the expectation that he would remain a key part of the team, then quit near the eve of a final competition.

[Mick]

[quote author=Mick link=topic=16303.msg183818#msg183818 date=1482967489]

The #2 partner in the life sciences practice was central to our efforts.  His name and face were very prominent on the proposal, on handouts, on posterboards, on our web site; all of which we'd spent months preparing.  He was going to be the ringleader and the key relationship partner.

At 8:20 a.m., he resigned with no notice to join our key competitor...who happened to be the key competitor for that specific prospective client. 

That's how it feels to me.  Like someone who left with a job unfinished and who didn't give a sxxt about his teammates.

You're certainly entitled to feel that way but the analogy isn't apt.

The inexcusable situation that you experienced is akin to McCaffrey quitting the team this Friday morning and somehow suiting up for North Carolina in the afternoon instead.

A more apt analogy would be your colleague resigning several weeks prior to the big presentation and going to work for a much bigger firm in another part of the country that competes for an entirely different group of clients.
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I'll respectfully disagree.  UNC was never a competitor of Stanford's for McCaffrey's services, and could never be a competitor for McCaffrey's services.  The competitor I'm referring to is the NFL.  McCaffrey quit, specifically and in his own words, to prepare for the NFL.  So we lose his services, both next year and the remainder of this year, to the NFL.

And the deeper part of the story is not the identity of his ultimate employer.  The deeper meaning is that he prepared with the team, was taught and raised (professionally speaking) by team members, with the expectation that he would remain a key part of the team, then quit near the eve of a final competition.