[Moonman62]

“But then you think, hey, maybe seven is my lucky number. And besides, if I don’t go, they’ll just eliminate me if something else comes up because they’ll think I have an attitude problem.”

If he actually knows his stuff, they are probably using him to get free information on how to do things.

[jiggyboy]

Good one. This is how a lot of engineering companies do a lot of “field work” into patents. “How would you do something like this?” is invariably either something that they have already decided is patentable, or something that’s been stumping them.