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- From: neil@salmon.demon.co.uk ("Neil S. Briscoe")
- Subject: Informix Support Problem
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:00:40 +0000
- Message-ID: <9208211400.AA01350@salmon.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <1992Aug21.054836.3498@u.washington.edu>
- From: golbone@milton.u.washington.edu (Sima Hashemifar) writes:
- [...]
- >But you would post to the net to clear your/company name? Why did you not
- >email your response?
-
- Some at Informix choose to, some don't. In either case I don't see it
- as trying to make the company look good. It may be that they care
- what customers feel about the company *and* themselves. They're
- trying to do you a favour.
-
- >You may think that working at home is a sign of support, I think of it as a
- >sign that either the engineer is overworked meaning that Informix is
- >cutting corners in support by having too few hands, or the engineer is lazy
- >at work and has to take the spill home. I have a strong feeling the reason
- >is not the latter.
-
- Most of my customers are also good business colleagues. I've spent
- social occasions with these people. (I'm lucky we're small enough to
- allow this.) In any event, working from home after a day at the
- Silicon Face is nobody's idea of fun. I've been 'phoned at work
- before and asked if I would be available at the weekend due to this
- being the only time the customer could perform a particular job. In
- most cases I've agreed. I don't get paid extra, the customer doesn't
- get charged. With an attitude like yours, however, you'd get past me
- just once. After that, boy would you be paying through the nose.
- More likely, I'd just be busy that weekend, and all the following
- ones.
-
- You guessed. You've agitated me.
-
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