Re: Networking 5494/Ethernet/TokenRing

["Dick Lucas" <rlucas@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, it was because it was union.  You know, the socialists who aren't
quite communist.


Dick Lucas


-----Original Message-----
From: PaulMmn <PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Sunday, January 24, 1999 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: Networking 5494/Ethernet/TokenRing


>>Back when I was a CE, years ago, I was told that the telco techs only got
>>bad marks if they found a real 'trouble' on a service call.  No trouble
>>found (NTF) didn't affect there ratings.  Hence, you place a trouble call,
>>they check out the line, NTF, and it starts working.
>>
>>Moral, don't look a gift horse in the mouth. :)  Just smile, say thanks,
and
>>call them first the next time.
>>
>>Dick Lucas
>
>
>Hmph!  Sounds like the bean counters who developed -that- scheme were the
>ones who figured out that you need to 'charge' maintenance costs against
>the work shift that reported them, and cost that shift their performance
>bonuses.  Which is why no one reports machinery problems until the machine
>falls over dead.
>
>Bottom line looks good with all that deferred maintenance.  Of course,
>everyone wonders why they can't make products that meet specs any more...
>
>--Paul E Musselman
>PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com
>
>
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