Professional Courtesy Is Not Full of Suck
K. Brian Kelley recently blogged on SQL Server Central about what may be the worst display of unprofessionalism I’ve seen in my years as a software professional. Note that I did not say SQL Professional, as I think what he spoke to transends development platforms. I’ll not detail here what he spoke to as it would steal traffic from a fine post on a fantastic site. I can only hope to drive the 5 people that read this blog over to SQL Server Central.
Let’s just say that if you expect your customers to do your work for you then you should not have customers, and you won’t for too long. Be dilligent, be thorough, be smart, build good solutions.
Brian, if dealing with poor vendors involved one-upsmanship you’d win. However, it looks like you end up losing instead, because the product and vendor you outlined was full of all kinds of suck.
You know, you drooped down the # of readers of you blog from 6 to 5 (see two posts ago). I think you have a better readership than that! 🙂
And thanks for pointing folks to the post I made. I’m like most other IT professionals, I just want stuff that works and looks like someone cares about the product. This particular vendor “solution” looks far from that description.
I had 6. However, sadly, one of my readers had to go back into general population for getting caught with a shiv. Funny story, he was being asked to make his own shiv upgrade by comparing it to a new model whose specs were drawn on single-ply toilet paper with feces. Ok, so not funny, but Jungian.