Talk about a goat roping.
Actually, no. I don’t want to talk about it. Without consulting anyone who has the remotest idea what is going on, sales contrived to sell something that should never have been sold, and I have spent the better part of several days pulling a way to make it work out of thin air. Today, hopefully, I will finish it completely. And never look this customer in the face AGAIN.
Been there. Done that. Burned the t-shirt.
I had a customer call up one time wanting a test version to interface with some management system I had never heard of. Seems sales told them we worked with that system. Not so much. At the end of the week I had a testing system at the client site.
Don’t know that we ever made the sale.
Hope yours turns out better.
Well, its gone pear shaped.
Why do sales people never want to sell what they have?
Why do sales people always want to sell what the do not have?
Our old director sold a kluge to a customer, left and then told everyone that we should just walk away from the sale. I still want to punch him in the throat.
yeah, tell me Gerry. We have to sell the stuff just because the customer wants it!!! Nevermind they can buy something better elsewhere, we can’t afford to lose a sale!!!
Lemme guess. He sold ’em a Seimmens system, and it’s got you all tied up in little Nazis?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Back in the first consulting company I worked for an account rep (aka salesman) told a prospective client that, although I’d never programmed in Fortran (but I could read it, as could any programmer who passed his first couple classes in college), I knew PL/I which was “practically the same language”. The client found out between setting up the interview and the actual interview, so when I walked in the client told me we would most emphatically NOT be doing business.
Funny part is I was hired a couple months later for a different department of he same company, and at one point had to do some work for the original client in, you guessed it, Fortran.
They’ll all tell you, we’re nothing but sales support.
Years ago we had a sales person pimp a sale to us for a unix OS that we did not support and had no real interest in supporting. The customer swore that we’d have at least 100 license sales if we made this port of the software.
So we made the software port, which was not easy because the unix OS in question was a piece of crap (no, it wasn’t SCO (which we did have a port for), it was worse) — and then the guy who claimed we’d sell 100 licenses? Didn’t even buy a copy himself.
I don’t think we ever sold a license for that OS. Could have shot the salesperson. And the customer.