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From: ritchie@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (David Ritchie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: If you insult Atari employees they'll just leave
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Date: 5 Dec 90 23:09:22 GMT
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Greg writes:
>
>Jim Townsend is an Atari employee, who occasionally provides very
>useful information. He doesn't set Atari policy.
>
>Bob Retelle is someone who likes to insult people. He wants to change
>Atari so bad he'd rather drive away Atari employees providing us
>support for our computers than be quiet. After all, if you badger the
>low-level employees they're sure to march right into the President's
>office and demand change.
>
>Townsend is a good person. If you keep it up, Bob, the quality of
>information on this newsgroup is going to decline even more.

  I must agree with Greg on this.

  Listen folks, if you have a gripe with the way Atari runs their 
business, then write Jack and Sam and vent your spleen -- the employees
don't control the throttle of the Atari train. I would say that Atari
has their problems, but it isn't anything that has already been beaten
to death here n! times. 

  Have you folks ever thought that there just may not be enough folks 
at Atari to do all the jobs that have to get done to keep the doors open
and get out new products? That would explain a lot of the problems that 
have occured there over the years...

-- Dave Ritchie
ritchie@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com