Re: Programmers VS Consultants

["System Support Products, Inc." <sspi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:13 PM -0800 11/23/99, James W Kilgore wrote:
>I was standing in the hall jawboning with the CEO/President of a client
>when the Marketing Director approached us, and in his "humor" he asked
>if I was here to cost them more money. Now, I felt that was a slap in
>the face to the industry as a whole. My first reaction was to head butt
>him, but I said: "Computers are costing you money? Tell you what, let's
>turn them off for a week and see how much you save."

    Well said!  I'm going to have to file this one for those 
"difficult situations."

    Regards,

    - Lou Forlini
      Software Engineer
      System Support Products, Inc.
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