[17:58:39] Horatio_Hex:
i am SO close
[17:58:42] Horatio_Hex:
to setting the office on fire
[17:58:52] Horatio_Hex:
so so SO close
[17:58:55] Smock
Miiš: oooh, send me the pics when you're there!
[17:59:03] Horatio_Hex:
right now I’m just struggling
[17:59:10] Horatio_Hex:
if i should bolt the doors from the outside
[17:59:12] Horatio_Hex:
or not
[17:59:27] Smock
Miiš: from the outside?
[17:59:31] Horatio_Hex:
yes
[17:59:35] Horatio_Hex:
and lock the idiots in
[17:59:35] Smock
Miiš: to keep you in?
[17:59:41] Smock
Miiš: oh!
[17:59:52] Horatio_Hex:
no no, i'll step outside of course
[18:00:01] Horatio_Hex:
though i think sales people are fireproof
[18:00:03] Smock
Miiš: not another oddball of a salesperson?
[18:00:08] Horatio_Hex:
a client is trying to kill me
[18:00:12] Smock
Miiš: oh, I guessed!
[18:00:18] Horatio_Hex:
mainly because i'm closer to them compared to the sales person
[18:00:58] Smock
Miiš: why oh why do you employ salespersons that have no clue?
[18:00:58] Horatio_Hex:
big server hardware + trendmicro antivirus + symantec netbackup = $90k
[18:01:18] Horatio_Hex:
client says, ok, drop the trend micro and net backup, then send a quote
[18:01:36] Horatio_Hex:
she sends the quote with the hardware specs / Build of Material = $90k still
[18:01:53] Horatio_Hex:
now, there's like 5 pages of other SAP project docs sandwiched above this quote
[18:02:09] Horatio_Hex:
client misses the $$ value, and OK's the new hardware spec / BOM
[18:02:41] Horatio_Hex:
1 month passes, the client's director of IT notices, hey, sub total # 9, its
the same after you took out some components
[18:02:56] Horatio_Hex:
ALL the sales guys are going 'duuuurrr what’s the same? We took out the net
backup. its not the same!'
[18:03:53] Smock
Miiš: oh boy
[18:03:56] Smock
Miiš: inflation!
[18:04:14] Horatio_Hex:
someone's going to get an inflated head
[18:04:17] Smock
Miiš: dollar grew stronger in a couple of days!
[18:04:35] Horatio_Hex:
or "we hoped you grew a little more stupid in the past few days so you wouldn’t
notice"
[18:04:53] Horatio_Hex:
now, problem is, if we backtrack, client will say 'if we didn’t find it, you
would have ran with it and taken our money'
[18:05:09] Horatio_Hex:
so yeah
[18:05:17] Horatio_Hex:
*insert setting fire to sales people here*
[18:05:41] Smock
Miiš: fire the salesperson; that should appease the gods of the client
[18:05:54] Smock
Miiš: or, set him/her on fire
[18:05:55] Horatio_Hex:
doubt it
[18:05:59] Horatio_Hex:
the client wants blood
[18:06:04] Horatio_Hex:
my blood
[18:06:42] Smock
Miiš: your blood? where do you appear in this picture?
[18:06:58] Horatio_Hex:
kinda the lead on the deal for the SUPER SOFTWARE APPLICATION portion
[18:07:05] Horatio_Hex:
the hardware is just something I brought in
[18:07:13] Horatio_Hex:
and I don’t even get any incentive for the hardware
[18:07:47] Horatio_Hex:
hardware sales guys, software sales guys, infra sales guys, god. save me
[18:07:47] Smock
Miiš: well then, you're in clear, just proxy the anger further
[18:08:31] Smock
Miiš: well, we just fired the clueless guy we had for one year before we gave
up
[18:08:47] Horatio_Hex:
ooo. lucky you
[18:08:47] Smock
Miiš: he made all sorts of headaches-causing jumbles
[18:08:57] Horatio_Hex:
we usually just promote those kinds of people
[18:09:02] Smock
Miiš: lol
[18:10:39] Smock
Miiš: perhaps you should promote this one to a cleaning lady
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