Cartridge razor marketing must work like this:
- Thread starter Nils
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Very true and funny 
I stopped at the Mach3 and went retro to DE shaving 
Neodymium, bah! They should have gone with depleted uranium! Tough enough for armor piercing rounds, tough enough for your beard! Then they could have shown a graphic of a tank blasting whiskers! 
I got my degree in marketing, then decided that lying for a living is not a good way to make money, now I'm a machine operator.
and their budgets are huge - in work they have twice as many people working on creating websites than there in the mainframe department... we 'just' crunch numbers, maintain the inventory, sales, royalty and invoicing systems, they create pretty webpages with no discernible income stream.
I'm not bitter, not at all, it's just that my PC hasn't been upgraded since 2003
Is there anybody with a tech job who hasn't cringed at what marketing and sales are telling the customers?
I've been on both sides of the Marketing vs. Operations fence, finally reaching my reward(?) as a General Manager . . .
1. Marketing guys create sales. Nothing happens until a sale is made.
2. Without sales, we don't need IT, Invoicing, Analysis, Shipping, Production, Janitors, or Management.
3. If the operations team stinks, marketing will never sell another one! If that happens, see #2 above.
4. IT guys must always have the best, newest, and fastest computer, since they are driven by technology. Don't **** off the IT department . . . management needs information!
5. Worship the marketing team at every turn. They are ego-driven. If you have problems with worshiping them, see #1 above.
I work in publishing where there's always been a need for marketing - the company I work for and its clients have had some notable marketing successes but these achieved success via the traditional routes rather than the web. With the web we're now pouring money into promotional and sales websites where the hit rates are minimal and marketing seems intent on reinventing Amazon.
That it's not working is seen as cause to employ more 'marketeers'(their word not mine) and web developers... we recently lost a highly successful sales team because their age and background didn't reflect the company image marketing wants to promote.
On several occasions I've had to step in to prevent web developers breaking UK law by fiddling with our interfaces at marketing's behest but sooner or later we're going to miss one. Worst of all, every one of the web programmers could do with a decent shave - the scruffy gits
That it's not working is seen as cause to employ more 'marketeers'(their word not mine) and web developers... we recently lost a highly successful sales team because their age and background didn't reflect the company image marketing wants to promote.
On several occasions I've had to step in to prevent web developers breaking UK law by fiddling with our interfaces at marketing's behest but sooner or later we're going to miss one. Worst of all, every one of the web programmers could do with a decent shave - the scruffy gits
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