Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!osborn From: osborn@cs.utexas.edu (John Howard Osborn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Advice on what to buy.. Summary: Really about Compus Consultants Message-ID: <20891@cs.utexas.edu> Date: 28 Jun 91 04:16:09 GMT References: <6030@uniol.UUCP> <1801@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX Lines: 26 In article <1801@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes: >*NeXT apparently changed the "official responsibilities" of all >Campus Consultants, and ours resigned in disgust. The story I >heard was that NeXT decided not to have CCs performing technical >support, but instead be on-site sales dweebs. This doesn't surprise me at all. I'm sure I'll get flamed and called an ass for saying it, but Campus Consultants (at least the technically able ones) have always seemed an exploitable labor source for NeXT. Paid a wage that doesn't allow a student to live, much less pay for a NeXT computer, I can easily imagine a person quitting if forced to do nothing but sales work. NeXT, by direct quote, prefers to hire Campus Consultants (an outdated phrase?) who "already have the religion." Unfortunate, but true, is a sad tendency for religious zeal to combine with an unquestioning attitude. I hope that NeXT Campus Consultants are above such an attitude. (Important disclaimer: NeXT had me cancel travel plans on short notice so that, an hour into a job interview, they could tell me the position had already been filed. I was upset and, therefore, am probably biased. I think the machine is #1, but I can't seem to get the religion.) - -John H. Osborn -osborn@cs.utexas.edu