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[djean111]

28. My fiance (at the time) worked for HP - customer engineer.

What she did to the CE's was to charge them with being salesmen. They hated that.

What she did with the salesmen was give them impossible sales quotas, which put them in the position of telling clients that the hardware they sold them a year ago, on the premise that it would be good for their needs for a couple or a few years, needed to be replaced right now.

I was a system manager responsible for some HP and some Tandem systems, and was affected directly. Imagine trying to tell your manager that the equipment you just bought last year, under the premise that we did not need money in the budget for this year, was supposedly obsolete. And the salesmen would make end runs around the system managers, desperate to make a sale.

And then there was the "just show them a shiny brochure" bullshit. The Tandem-based software group I was working in was going along just fine, working with the Tandem guys to sell a software/hardware packaged telephone billing solution to countries overseas and our own company. The HP salesmen came in and tried to undercut the Tandem guys, begging (actually almost ordering) us to switch to HP equipment. They even contacted our overseas customers, who were confused about this and angry as they had already invested in the Tandems. We said here is basically the metrics of what we are doing, number of transactions per second - show us a stress test on HP equipment. We will help design the test software.

The answer was NO, we were to just trust them and purchase the HP equipment because - shiny brochure.

She is nothing but a sleazy salesperson.