[MaxPengwing]

I saw a variation on this. Mostly with old legacy systems. At a well known grocery store chain (GSC) in Sweden they decided to outsource their IT department. Then realised that noone understood the AS/400 systems, so the outsourcing company hired the old GSC IT employees back at a much higher salary. One I spoke with basically tripled her salary as she was not interested to come back and wanted to scare off the recruiter and gave what she though was a fantasy number as monthly salary, and the recruiter accepted it within the hour.

An other guy I've spoken to, who is a retired sales person, and this is way back, he's dead now. He still got sales consultancy work from his old employer in the 1990s and early 2000's because he was the only person a very large Japanese company would deal with and refused to have their account managed by anyone else but in return they would not shopp around for cheaper prices. Apparently the guy had managed to impress during Nomenkai during the 1980s, and I think he managed to save the customers CEO's face in an unrelated matter without realising it until later.

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