Breadth of Experience
Watching all the G4S Security nonsense going on in the London Olympics, it’s kind of cathartic given a weird little experience I had in Turkey. We were mandated to switch to G4S security due to a global sourcing initiative, or some buzzword like that. A dispute broke out between the local person responsible for securing the Turkish contract and the G4S sales rep. I was pulled in to be an arbitrator, reviewing old e-mails and essentially fact-checking both sides as a neutral observer.
I reviewed everything in detail and reconstructed their cost models, issuing a finding somewhere in the middle ground between the two sides. I definitely can’t say I liked the company after what I saw, but it was - in the end - more of a minor personality clash than a real blowup. Kind of amusing I got pulled into things like that. That would never happen here.