From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ffce418d7a49585f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-19 22:31:48 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!boulder!news.coop.net!news.den.mmc.com!iplmail.orl.mmc.com!romulus23!dennison From: dennison@romulus23.DAB.GE.COM (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Vendor bashing? Sort of. Date: 19 Sep 1994 11:48:45 GMT Organization: General Electric SCSD, Daytona Beach FL Sender: dennison@romulus23 (Ted Dennison) Distribution: world Message-ID: <35jtqt$dkq@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> References: <355o58$isa@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <35au0c$imd@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <35dc8e$t7h@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: romulus23.orl.mmc.com Date: 1994-09-19T11:48:45+00:00 List-Id: In article <35dc8e$t7h@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: |> Greg, let me get this right, you wanted to charge for an hour of time to |> come in and make a sales pitch? Well that's a novel way of doing business |> (well perhaps one should say it would be novel if it worked). Charging |> for sales pitches, well, well, that's the second strangest thing I heard |> about today (the first is too long a story ...) |> Actualy, Greg said: "...First they wouldn't give their workers a charge number for one hour of time for me to come in and make a presentation." Note the word WORKERS. In my company, as well as most other large defence contractors I'm sure, we grunts are not allowed to do ANYTHING for one hour without a charge number for it. I seriously doubt even Greg is stupid enough to charge companies for sales pitches. Greg is absolutely right that trying to pitch cost savings to a "cost +" program at this stage is a waste of time. He should have hit them up when they were BIDDING for the contract. That's when they would have been hungry for cost savings (or even the appearance of cost savings). This was just a dumb business decision on his part. T.E.D. Disclaimer: Martin Marietta has no opinon whatsover about Greg or his business acumen. If they did, they'd buy him.