DEAR HARRIETTE: I am a freelance contractor. Recently, a friend invited me to have lunch with her to talk about a project. I gave her a few of my ideas with the intention of getting her to hire me to work with her. That’s what she said to me, after all.
Now I realize that she has to get her boss to agree to anything that she does. I have met her boss before, and we got along fine, but that was year…