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I made this (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Forgive the hastily made meme. All too common with us engineers.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

no no no, this is the wrong way around

because sales and marketing sell it before it even exists

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

Sales: "Can we do this?

Dev: "No, we cannot."

Sales: "Uhhhh... But I already told the customer we could."

Dev: "That's called lying. You lied to the customer."

Sales: "...So you'll have it done next week?"

Dev: "I'm going to need at least three weeks."

Sales: "...But I already told the customer two weeks."

Dev: Sigh

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

truth. Why wait for a product at all? Just sell it now, then yell at your engineers for taking so damn long!