2021-07-17 // day precision
Contracting swashbucklers versus ninjas
Posted by Dan Cary
Original source text
Who would win in a contracting throw down, Ninjas or Swashbucklers?
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Editorial interpretation
The caption asks which contracting archetype would win, with Timothy Wilhelm tagged in the post. The pictured sword-bearing figure is used for the swashbuckler joke; identity is not independently inferred from the image. Wilhelm’s comments suggest a privateer acting for government and joke about an RAF title.
SOURCE DISCUSSION — transcribed original comments
2021-07-17 — Timothy Wilhelm:
I would be more like a contracting privateer because I’m doing on behalf of the Government.
2021-07-17 — Timothy Wilhelm:
I wonder what the COs in the RAF are called. Like Her Majesty’s Exchequer of the Contract
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Topics: Early Years, July 2021, Contracting identity, Community culture