In the corporate world, engineers have a belief that the Marketing/Sales Department of any company is inherently evil. It may have something to do with engineers working in the real and the functional while Marketers deal with the dreams and possible (using the word loosely here). What engineer hasn't been in a situation where the "Sales Guys" have sold something to a customer when he hasn't even defined the specs yet?
(On the other side of the coin, Sales Guys often complain about Engineers delivering late and/or delivering software completely different from the original intent. But since I'm an Engineer I'm ignoring that side. Don't like it? Tough, its my blog, go get your own.)
Well today poor Andrew's website is reporting Bandwidth exceed despite being hosted on a Unlimited Bandwidth plan. He opened a trouble request but hasn't had a response yet or improvement in the state of his blog. So what does he do in this situation? He emails a complaint to the Sales Department. Turn the evil of the Sales Guys on the Engineer guys not solving Andrew's problem. If Engineers liked each other, it would almost be despicable.
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We have web access again. Yay for evil!
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