On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 11:42 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:08 AM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
<snip> > Michael: I thought the job of Marketing people (or so they would like > to think) is to give the Engineering staff a set of specs, a budget s/specs/incomplete, inaccurate, rapidly changing, and irrelevant &/ s/budget/inadequate &/ # You omitted important specifications of tha problem - are you in # marketing? ;-) =:-ONo. I worked in R&D (mostly Aerospace) and I'm now trying to reenter
I was seriously joking. Note the wink and amazement above.
the job market. Almost always, I found that those of us in Engineering were trying to comply with requirements that Marketing had given away to the customer and we couldn't complete the task within their time frame or budget. Marketing will do anything (usually) to make the sale and then the Engineers try to get it done on time and within the budget. Remember the comparison between Engineers and Mushrooms......
I wish you good luck on the reentry (there's a pun there... aerospace).
Having been a mushroom... er software/systems and many related for a long time, I know whereof you speak. That's what prompted me to add the adjectives and the attempt at humor.
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