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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (24989)	11/2/2004 10:58:46 AM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 306849

OT I don't think I could generalize about recovering addicts, but I do know that the only client I ever fired was a recovering alcoholic. He was what a lot refer to as a "dry drunk". He wasn't drinking but he was more erratic and abusive than when he was drinking. He confined his bad behavior to my assistants for a while constantly putting me in the situation where I had decide whether he was telling the truth or my employees were. Since I knew my guys pretty well he was the chief suspect. Finally he made the mistake of pulling his crap on me. I think he was bipolar. After I asked him to take his work elsewhere, he wound up going to another woman who does what do. I saw her a year later at some function and asked her how it was going with X and she made a face, took a long breath and said, "Well, I'm still doing his work BUT...." She came up with a long litany of complaints. BTW I have an enormous number of non-profit clients (proximity to DC) and I find there are two kinds of people who are drawn into them, the sincere but poor or middle class hard worker for the cause and the rich socialite with the rolodex of possible donors. Some of these socialites are also sincere and hard working but a lot of them are simply there so they can breathlessly plan these black tie galas and feel like they are living the high life for a good cause. Being involved with non-profits gives them some meaning to what would be a rather empty life. When it comes to issues of whose money will be spent for various things, the poor worker on salary is more likely to pull out their personal check book whereas the rich one is more likely to try to find someway to get someone other than themselves to pay for something and barring that, pressure me to donate even more than the standard break I give them. The very rich and the very poor can be equally unrealistic about money issues. That said, most of my non-profit clients do a wonderful job doing what they were intended to do and for the most part are wonderful to work for. Some of the best projects I've ever worked on have been for non-profits.