My lunch conversations were technical on both sides. I needed to understand some things. We had something called artificial menstrual fluid that we used in testing and the lady told me it wasn't realistic at all. We had artificial urine for testing absorbents for diapers that was pretty representative of babies under the age of about 1.
Baby urine is simpler stuff. I was told we had no good way of assessing a potential absorbent in the lab. Bummer. At the time, I could only make small lab samples of our potential absorbent material. Those were the days.
I was asked to talk to a Section Manager about a job in Fem Care, which I said I didn't want. So, then the Associate Director wanted to talk to me, I said the same thing, happy where I am. Then the Director called me to have lunch. Uh oh. Same story, I told him I was not interested, at all. He said he would discuss it with the other managers, OK whatever.
Two weeks later I read my transfer announcement on email sent to the entire division. I was PISSED. They were scared to tell me face to face. My reaction probably did my career no good, I should have just gone along with it like a good little boy but I made a stink. Then, I discovered they had nothing for me to do in Fem Care, at all. Not a thing.