A Friend in Need, is a Friend with Kraft Dinner!

I wish that I had more friends like Mike Mclay.

I have always been blessed with an assortment of awesome friends. I have been able to maintain a number of friendships for 20+ years. It has always been a great source of pride for me, but lately I have been extremely thankful for the friendship of Mike Mclay.

Mike and I first met in training when we first got hired for Accenture in the Summer of 2007. My first impression of the guy was that he looked like Tyson Tomko in a suit. (Tyson Tomko being a former WWE/TNA wrestler) Mike and I hit it off quite easily, and probably because we both share a similar sense of humor, in addition to several similar likes a dislikes.


(Artist’s Rendering of Michael Mclay.)

Early in our tenure with Accenture, Mike broke his leg, and was severely injured due to slipping on some ice, and had to miss work for a year, and it was funny, because the place just didn’t seem the same without him. It’s funny some of the things you don’t realize you miss when they are gone, but Mike’s loud, and sometimes argumentative approach to customer service, listening to him on his calls, were quite entertaining, and somewhat weirder, relaxing.

When he came back, I was immediately happy to see him, because Mike is the kind of guy that makes everyone around him better. Even though I know that he doesn’t believe it, he does. He helps make me a better person, and I can say this with all sincerity, that I wish that he was my older brother. I once told him that, and he didn’t believe me, but it is totally true.

He is my most supportive friend at Accenture, and without him, work isn’t the same to come in to. And while I have a lot of friends at Accenture, who are very supportive of me. (Jen, Lynnda, Amanda, Lisa, Lesley, Mike, you know who you are), Mike Mclay by far is my closest and dearest friend at work.

I only wish that he takes the time to read this, because I never chat with him online, but I hope that someone will bring that to his attention, so that he can know how much his friendship means to me. He has made some of the hardest moments of the last year of my life a lot more tolerable, and his guidance and opinion is one that I respect more than most.

I don’t know where life will take me in this world, as I have not yet perfected Flux Capacitor technology, but I do know this, that I certainly hope that I have a friend like Mike Mclay around me always, because he makes me a better person, just having him as a friend.

But that’s just my opinion… What do I know???
F.M.