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Sales Director: A client bought our product on the premise it has feature A Me (dev): That feature doesn’t exist Sales Director: ….
True story…
It’s easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission. That goes for customer deadlines as well.
The fuck? If you get a job because you say 3 weeks instead of 4 like everyone else, and you still take 4 weeks. Thats no way to operate a business lmfao.
That’s why I’m not a sales person
That’s the way most business operate.
A cowboy rides his horse in the prairies. Sees a canyon and says, “I’m a cowboy, I’ll jump that canyon!”
He directs the horse in a gallop toward the canyon. The horse stops short of jumping, and says “You’re the cowboy, you jump.”
We implemented a system where users could call each other and share their screen. Sales team sold it with the promise that we would be implementing an option for the users to control the other user’s shared screen remotely.