Ethics
How to tell if your sales rep hates you….
by Jesse on May.22, 2009, under Best Practices, Celerra, Ethics, NFS, Replication, Vmware-NFS, Worst Practices
I just got the following job posting and it made me, literally, laugh out loud, spitting latte all over my laptop.
If your sales rep allows you to do something like this, it’s a fair bet that s/he hates you (or is planning to buy your company out of bankruptcy later).
“WANTED: VMWare 1-month resident to assist with new deployment/planning around 200VM’s and new Celerra NS480′s being purchased by client. Will probably end up primarily being VM’s using NFS on NS Celerra Replication will be enabled between (2) NS480′s.”
The key points are:
200VM’s
Celerra
**NFS**
Replicator
Ewww…..
Did I mention NFS?
Someone actually sold this? Even if the customer comes to you direct and says “this is what I want…” the answer should be “In the interests of protecting you from yourself, I can’t allow you to do this.”
I don’t care how much the deal is worth.
Ethics of hiring in the storage industry…
by Jesse on Jul.31, 2007, under Ethics, Job Market
So a friend passed on this story and I thought it worthy of commenting on.
He’s been going through the interview process with a major storage manufacturer to work in their Backup & Recovery group. On getting through the ‘tentative’ offer a comment was made:
‘I really want to bring you on but I have to figure out who I’m going to let go to make the head-count numbers work’
Ok, who wants that kind of blood on their hands? And who wants to work for a company that will so blithely play games with peoples lives?
Sorry, I’ll pass. 
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