The last expense account you ever submit…

4 comments May 25th, 2007 David Bush - Iasta

Many thanks to my friend, the Cynical Sourcer, who pointed me to this excellent story about a $15,000 martini coming out of Japan. To many sourcing professionals, this is just the type of extravagance that makes fiscally sound and responsible people squirm on their bar stools. My favorite quote is the description of the “service” that comes with the actual vodka: “That price includes drink preparations table side, a serenade of “Diamonds are Forever” as a cut stone slides to the martini glass bottom, and later a ring mounting by a local jeweller.”

I had a number of people at our recent user conference comment to me that drinking beer in a brewery is a whole lot better than hanging out in a posh 5 star resort being schmoozed. Those blow out events might lead people to believe the hosting companies are doing well, but more appropriately have them scratching their heads trying to figure out exactly who all this money is being made from…oh yea, its the attendees!

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Iasta reSource ‘07 and what you missed

Add comment May 25th, 2007 David Bush - Iasta

I cant help it, I have to rub it in to all the people that could not come to our user conference. It was a great time. I personally was within a couple feet of Sam Hornish and Tony Kanaan, others in our group got to meet and talk to drivers like Milka Duno and Dan Wheldon. This picture was taken by an Iasta client who was walking around with Heriberto from our team in Mexico. I have conveniently cropped him from the image as the important part of the picture is on the left:

These videos came from one of our cameras and give you some idea of what we all got to experience:

Danica Patrick getting up to top speed

Panasonic pitting

Panasonic leaving pits with 2ft of clearance

One other thing that struck me as humorous…our corporate suite was right behind the Penske pits (Castroneves/Hornish) and we were tucked nicely between other companies at the event in order:

VISA — Patrone Tequila Racing — IASTA — Chip Ganassi/Target — Sysco

It was very cool to walk through those areas and be positioned with our “peers” off Gasoline Alley. Make sure you register early for reSource next year!

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