Where I've been working recently is having issues with deliveries for equipment. Because the company is English, the Russian logistics company in charge of it is making a meal of it all and has been holding stock for about 3 weeks now. Companies go into liquidation and sell our equipment to each other, ask for bribes to deliver it, deliver it only in parts and just outright sell things. It's getting sorted, but fuck is it annoying.
One of the guys at work did tell me an amusing story when we were talking about it though. This man was an ex fighter pilot (he used to fly Migs... COOL), and is now the site manager. I was explaining the situation with the things we need, and he told me a story about a company that made double glazing.
Apparently this company got an order from Moscow one time for a few windows. They made them and sent them off. Soon after the boss got a call from the clients. They told him that the windows were smaller than the dimensions they ordered. The boss told them to use some foam and essentially told them to fuck off in a polite manner. The Muscovites called again and got the same response, and again once more after that. I don't think that guy knew the saying 'third time lucky', but now he has an intimate knowledge of it. Soon after the third phone call, a bunch of guys came round to his office in a black, tinted car. They found the boss and pinned him down. They flipped him over and showed that bottle of expanding foam up his arse... literally. They then proceeded to pump the foam through his arse and left.
That's business in Russia. 'I'm going to fill your arse 50cm full of foam'
'how about 20?'
'I won't go lower than 40'
'Make that 32 and you have yourself a deal!'
It's literally like these people try to fuck themselves over. By being unprofessional dicks they lose business, and in the case of the window man- the ability to use his intestines properly or walk.
imagine...
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