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From: bb@wjh12.harvard.edu (Brent Byer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Delays in DS5000 shipping?
Message-ID: <532@wjh12.harvard.edu>
Date: 7 Aug 90 15:40:33 GMT
References: <1990Aug4.013555.11650@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> <59277@lanl.gov>
Reply-To: bb@wjh12.UUCP (Brent Byer)
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA
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In article <59277@lanl.gov> dhc@lanl.gov (Dave Carter) writes:
>
>boy, you've hit a sore spot.  we placed an order for *one* 5000 late
>may or early june.  (i think the order finally got placed on june
>5th.)  our sales rep told us then that we'd get it in no more than 4
>weeks.

Gee, that would be right around the end of June, which would be
the end of the 'quarter' (quarter-annual financial report).

>well, he came back later with a different story:  a ship date
>in mid-september!! 

Aha, that is near the end of the next 'quarter'.

And, remember, as far as the financial bozos are concerned,
"shipping" means it is on the loading dock.  You ought to
see how many (empty?) crates are crowding the loading docks
at the ends of financial periods.

[ And, speaking of Bozos, "He's just jiving you, man." ]

>yes, people here are pretty pissed at the whole thing, and are
>considering a massive changeover to (heaven forbid) suns ...

If one of your organization's "suits" had made this crystal clear
to the vendor, *at the time you placed your order* (even writing
it on the order), then your order would have been the bumpER
instead of the bumpEE.


   Standing on yellow rubber line,
	Brent Byer  ( DEC PDP-10 Marketing, 1968 )