The Paddling Prodigy, Deacons Chairman Nick Abrahams, is tonight sleeping with homeless folk as part of a sleep-out to raise funds for the St Vincent De Paul Society.  The event is a charitable departure from the posh digs to which the goateed (alarm bells?) Chairman is undoubtedly accustomed. But more than just a simple act of philanthropy, Abrahams’ sacrifice might well be a dance with death itself.

You see, Abrahams is himself a ‘dot-com refugee’, who recalls his hair-raising brush with homelessness:

During dot com, I, like many lawyers… had a go at running a dot com. Back then, I was the Los Angeles-based COO of a listed Australian internet company.  As the bloom came off the internet rose, disgruntled US employees started some very tactile 360 degree feedback by returning after their redundancy interviews to shoot COOs and their kind.

So the major thing I learnt from a downsizing situation was that when the going gets tough, it is time to move into a lockable office with a big window and your own fire escape stairs, just in case the gun-toting 360 feedbacker is headed your way.

Strangely, it appears that Abrahams has been now been influential in two major redundancies: first ‘as the bloom came off the dot com rose’; and more recently the sackings at his own firm, Deacons. But far from moving into a ‘lockable office with a big window’ to escape peril, Abrahams is paddling headlong into it!

Is Abrahams sleeping with the very people his firm made redundant? More importantly, are they packing heat?  Go on, show your support for this worthy cause (and Abraham’s courage).

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