Hey you kids, get off my lawn!

I was in my mid-20s and I kicked off a notification to him that I was going to be traveling to New York from Cherry Hill, New Jersey and I had a few hours to kill and would he like to join me. I was going to an Oracle user group. I was taking the train in.

He met me at his office. He was in a slightly panicky frame of mind. It seems that he made the mistake of giving too much to some public user group and he exposed corporate secrets. So he was in the midst of negotiating his exit from the current company cuz they were really pissed off at him. I love the fact that his status on the perl website was that he was a saint. He had answered enough questions that everyone who has interacted with him voted him up and internally that meant he was a saint. Good old saint Ben.

At that moment I got a phone call about a problem employee. I was trying to fire him but it was next impossible. Ben told me that A's want to work with A's and B's want to work with C's and that's why you have a C employee and you have to hand them off to the B's. We had the B team so I know exactly what to do.

Everything was easy and succinct when I dealt with Ben. He could dive to the center of the subject matter and slice out the b*******.