Article: 178992 of alt.sysadmin.recovery From: dpm@myths.com (David P. Murphy) Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery Subject: Re: Sales morons and the wankers that hire them Approved: surt@muspellheim.com Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 02:30:21 -0000 Organization: Phase of the Moon Software Inc. Message-ID: References: <9020CD757maranbatbiteyforce9c@62.253.162.107> X-Mythos: Norse X-Who-Is-Black-Surt: the Ultimate Flamer X-What-Is-His-LART: a huge blazing sword named Twilight X-Where-Is-Muspellheim: the Land of the Fire Giants X-When-Will-He-Strike: Ragnarok X-Why-Will-He-Destroy-All: for the sheer wanton act of destruction X-How-Can-We-Stop-Him: shield yourself with lusers; at least they'll go first X-Phase-Of-The-Moon: Waxing Gibbous (94% of Full) User-Agent: tin/1.4.3-20000502 ("Marian") (UNIX) (Linux/2.2.14-12 (i586)) X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 38 Path: news.meer.net!nntp1.ba.best.com!news1.best.com!feed.textport.net!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!not-for-mail Xref: news.meer.net alt.sysadmin.recovery:178992 Robert Moir wrote: > dag@animagicnet.no (Dag) wrote in >>[story] "If I'd wanted a RAID card it'd be on the spec. Remember the spec?" --- BOFH specs the Quake Box From Heaven http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/30/9173.html > Like Mike, I tend to think you are wasting your time. OTOH who knows, you > could pitch this that the saledroid and his PHB between them have lost them > the sale of $foo completely by messing you around. point #1: What happened to "the customer is always right"? point #2: Are your salepeople being paid to HELP me or ARGUE with me? I'll allow one query to establish that I want to purchase this particular item, not a discussion about merits, but after that, you're insulting me. point #3: What makes your salespeople so bloody arrogant that he thinks he knows what my business needs more than I do? Me, the person who's been working on this project for $AMOUNT_OF_TIME, versus Him, who's been pushing random boxes and cards to all kinds of people? point #4: If you don't want to sell me *exactly* what I ask for, why the fuck is it in your window/catalog/website? You want to sell it, I want to buy it, just shut up and process the order . . . unless you're baiting & switching. ok dpm -- David P. Murphy http://www.myths.com/~dpm/ systems programmer ftp://ftp.myths.com mailto:dpm@myths.com (personal) COGITO ERGO DISCLAMO mailto:Murphy_DavidP@emc.com (work)