[ That's fine, because he likes hearing ramblings like this and it's nice that he's not the yapper for once. ]

I'm not sure what you could be using "dogwalking" as a euphemism for though.

[ No, he knows. They're just all terrible and he'd rather not bring it up. ]

Though it also means that the company is powerful enough to allocate all those resources into those different sectors. Claire's sure is different than I remember it to be...