On Aug 28, 2005, at 7:55 PM, Eric Bielefeld wrote:
Ed,
What's so bad about getting a bag with a vendor's name on it? I don't
understand what the problem is.
Eric Bielefeld
P&H Mining Equipment
Eric,
The company I worked for was a company that well lets say it was a
financial corporation that did not endorse any product. Any hint of
endorsement was verbotten. Salesmen used to come around and (for
example) tried to give us coffee mugs we let the sales type know that
gifts of any kind were not allowed. We were not allowed to say we used
any product as that was seen as an endorsement. I was going to GUIDE at
the time and was asked to do a part of a session on installation of
3390's . I was told NO , but I could talk about it one on one but not
during sessions.
Another time (at GUIDE) I was asked to give a presentation on PSF I was
again told NO.
One of the VP's thought he could get away with it (telling people we
had a silo). He got fired so fast no body knew what happened for quite
some time. (there is a nasty story behind this I cannot repeat) even
though I no longer work for the company.
One time we were an ESP for CBPDO. We had a fair amount of problems
with the packaging. I had asked for permission to give a presentation
at GUIDE for this. I was called into the office and was told that
management had changed their mind and to call up the GUIDE people and
tell them I couldn't do it. I had 250 handouts that went into the trash
can. SIGH, not to mention the 30 hours it took me to do it.
I was surprised that I was given the go ahead to be the project
manager for GUIDE storage requirements. I had to take a VP along with
me to GUIDE and let him monitor the sessions to make sure that no
endorsements could be made. (side story about 3 GUIDES later there was
a requirement that came up (its been 20 years so I don't remember the
exact details) . A requirement came up that needed endorsement by me to
be voted on. I had to abstain as it was a perceived endorsement of an
IBM product. I had to write a formal memo of what occurred (and how I
addressed the requirement) and address it to the CEO .
I know this sounds bad but the company was in a delicate position and
could not allow any of its people to seemingly endorse any product.
Ed
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