begin  quoting Lan Barnes as of Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 10:45:57AM -0800:
> 
> On Thu, January 25, 2007 1:11 pm, Todd Walton wrote:
> > On 1/24/07, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Given that making VMWare or Parallels run on gazillions of idiotic
> >> hardware configurations is an SEP (Somebody Else's Problem(tm))
> >
> > Overheard at the water cooler:
> >
> > One PHB: Nobody's buying our product, because it won't run where they
> > want it to run.
> >
> > The Other PHB: That's somebody else's problem.
> 
> Did you really overhear that? I once heard "we don't want customers like
> that."

I've heard that. And they were right... (customers who verbally abuse
employees, or who work really hard to scam additional product, to the
point of it being cheaper to give it to them than to pay someone to
keep saying "no!" in a nice tone of voice, ... )

-- 
The customer is not always right. 
Stewart Stremler


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