The following is a snippet from Mark’s latest article on LinkedIn. To read the article in its entirety, which has already gotten over 40,000 views, click here.
I was just out of college and needed a job to tide me over until I figured out what kind of business of my own I wanted to start and where to find the money to kick start it.
So I applied for an entry level marketing slot at Texaco’s offices in New York’s Chrysler building. I had zero interest in the oil business, knew not a relevant thing about Texaco, had no corporate interest at all but a friend told me the company just loved to hire nearly everyone who came knocking, so I headed off to land a place in the bureaucracy.
I was hired on day one but in a formality, I was required to meet a mid-manager for a blessing of sorts.
But this posed a daunting conflict for the young rebel that I was: I would need to wear a suit and the very prospect of that made me feel like a total sellout.
So I hatched an idea. I stuffed a green wool suit my dad had bought me for high school graduation into a brown supermarket bag, tucked it under my arm, rode the elevator to the 26th floor, ducked into the men’s room, slipped out of my jeans and into the suit.
Then like a proper MBA in the making, I entered a Mr. Walsh’s office to await the stamp of approval from the “king” maker.
Walsh was straight out of a Dickens novel: stern, pointy-faced, humorless. He surveyed me the way girlfriends’ fathers always did. Skeptical, disapproving and suspicious.
And then he zeroed right in on one of the causes of the bad taste in his mouth…
To find out what happened between Mark and the manager, click here!
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