The naked engineer: The inscrutable Orient

Posted on 22 Oct 2012 by Tim Brown

An involuntary sense of fair play hampers NE’s ambitions in China

Landed in Beijing twelve hours after leaving Heathrow. BA business class is really going downhill – not a stewardess under forty and not even so much as a hot towel to mop away the executive stress of running a top flight engineering business.

Consumed as much of BA’s passably decent champers as I could manage while retaining the ability to stay upright and took the opportunity to look at the latest absurd initiative from Hemlock Engineering’s compliance group – bribery and corruption training. I was a bit confused at first as I was expecting it to tell me…

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