[ale] Transition to OpenOffice / Dumb salespeople rant!!! OT

[James P. Kinney III]

So this was OO on windows. And it crashed. Does he park his car on a
hill with the engine running and the transmission in gear and nothing
but a parking brake to hold it in place? Doesn't he know that the number
cause of all application crashes is lunch?

On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 15:03, Keith Morris wrote:
> sorry, I just had to drop a quick note to blow off some steam.  I have 
> been pushing to move our company as open source as possible and have 
> been fairly successful.  Finally I convinced the boss to "beta test" 
> OpenOffice on some of our sales peoples machines (I have already 
> successfully moved all of the production machines to OO). So yesterday 
> one of our project managers installed OO on his and a sales persons 
> machine.  I hadn't even gotten a chance to go setup their options for them.
> 
> Well, I get a call earlier from one of the sales people saying... "I was 
> working on a document with 'that open office' that you have been 
> tracking...I had been working on it for about 2 hours...went to 
> lunch...came back and made some more changes then selected some text and 
> it crashed...it said it would try to recover the document, but it failed 
> and I lost everything.  So I'm dumping that thing and going back to Word 
> because I can't afford for that to happen."
> 
> To this I asked if he was saving the document all along and he said "No, 
>    I probably should have been, but I'm still dumping it."
> 
> Every day I feel more and more like "Fred" from the CDW 
> commercials..."Hey Fred, I fixed my laptop but it still doesn't work"
> 
> Thanks for the vent.
> 
> Keith Morris
> Creative Director
> Design / Effects
> IQ Television Group
> Atlanta, GA
> 404-255-3550
> http://www.iqtv.com
> 
> 
> 
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