2 Apr
2025
2 Apr
'25
6:35 p.m.
On 4/2/2025 10:06 AM, Jonathan Chapman via cctalk wrote:
On Tuesday, April 1st, 2025 at 21:32, Fred Cisin via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
In my days as a beltway bandit I was very popular as a pre-sales system
engineer. At least, with the customers. I never let a salesman try to
sell something I knew engineering could never deliver.
bill
One shortcoming, that has come up before, is that
it is taught to NOT say,
"I don't know"
Heh, I worked with a guy like that once. Unfortunately, he was in sales, so field
engineering then got to explain that what he'd sold them was actually not feasible.