I wish you could come to the Live! 2012 to London
If only London and Sydney, Australia were just an hours away ...
I'll wait until Virgin Galactic can zap me from Sydney to London cheaply and probably my employer can let me go. LOL
Reminds me of this story:
In one of my previous employment, one of our network vendors (not Cisco) decided to hold an 5 days in-depth technical training. Because our section is the only one using this particular vendor in the core network, we decided to nominate our best. Since the training was only to be held in US, the vendor was willing to foot the bill for everything including airfare, accomodation and food. So OK. The head office (in Texas) gave the approval. He got packed, got his picture taken for his passport. The works.
Then two weeks before departure, he was told by the in-country big-wigs that his trip was "pulled". Instead someone from the in-country manager is going. Now this manager couldnt tell the difference between a router and a fire hose even if his life depended on it. Yup, he used this opportunity as a junket. Dejected, we accepted the fate.
About a month later, HO sent out a "please explain" as to why the vendor was asking payment. You see, the vendor organized a ONE-ON-ONE training. No one came. But someone used up the hotel and airfare. In the end, we forwarded, to HO, the email telling us the trip was cancelled. We never heard from HO about this incident again.
