Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!questor!hfs!bhead From: bhead@hfs.questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Bradley Head) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Opinion Needed!!!! Message-ID: <1991Jun20.064442.4203@hfs.questor.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 06:44:42 GMT References: <1991Jun18.225148.17183@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> Sender: bhead@hfs.questor.wimsey.bc.ca Reply-To: bhead@hfs.questor.wimsey.bc.ca Organization: Headfirst Software, Vancouver, BC, Canada Mitchel Lee Roider writes > Hello all, > > > I have been debating on an issue that has been bothering me for a > while and I finally made up my mind to ask the people who could help > me. So if you have any info on mproblem please mail me or post, if this s is just alot of bandwidth than please do not fill the newsgroup with flas > just mail me with your ideas. > > Here is the problem: > I feel that NeXT is an unbelieveable company and one that has the > right vision of the future. The problem I have is their implementation > of it. I go to school at the University of Oklahoma and have been involved with the NeXT machines since August of 1990. I feel that Iam a qualified > person in the areas of programming, promotion andpersonal contact. I was > on NeXT's back at the beginning of my Freshman year that was last Fall, to > come to the university to support the computer. All I got was a lot of > company BS and they basically said thatey would not start anything until > an installed base was on campus ( the catch 22 thing). > I stayed my course and continued to ask ,while I was doing that I also > started a user group and started to get the computer noticed on campus. > Maybe I thought that this could get their attention and they would then > start something and maybe even ask me to help (kind of the Consultant thing) > . Well here is where it gets interesting!!!!!!!! > > I get a call three weeks before the enof the semester and the call > goes something like this" hello I am the NeXT campus consultant for OU and I > guess I was a little suprised but i decided that I might as well play along. > I met the Consultant and he did not suprise me at all. First did not know > anything about the computer or the market place it would fill and compete > against at the university level. Secondly I found out he had the job for a > the only two NeXT's on campus and I was the only onhelping these people. > though it would not have mattered if they knew there was a consultant on because he would not have been able to help. > > id not tell me what they were doing and they hired someone who will only > hamper the NeXT at the University. Yes I am mad that I was not picked to > do it even though I deserved it , it does not matter anymore . > right now they need to gt back on track and fix these problems. > > > > Mitchel Roider > University of Oklahoma NeXT user GRoup > email m or call (405) 749-0918 If your grammer and spelling are any indication of your personality, then I'm not surprised that NeXT did not hire you to be the CC. Take your beef elsewhere. -- -- Bradley Head, Headfirst Software, Vancouver BC, Canada NeXTmail : Non-NeXTmail :