Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: AKDejaVu on February 10, 2002, 04:16:35 PM
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You need to know potential customers too...
This took place sometime a couple years ago. Names have been changed to protect the innocent. What is also of interest is that this call was placed from cube city in the heart of Intel. That means your conversation is able to be heard by every cube around you. It just so happens that a manager from another group occupied an office across from "customer".
Orders department: Semicon Widget Company... may I help you?
Customer: Yes, I recently aquired your model 3500 widget tool and I need some replacement widgets.
{bored manager listens in because he has nothing better to do.. he's a manager afterall}
Orders department: Well you came to the right place. We have plenty of those for sale.
Customer: Great! I'll be needing enough widgets to re-stock 3 of your components... could I get you to send me a quote so I can get you a P.O. for this?
Orders department: Sir.. that will be $1400 per widget. Could you give me an adress to send the quote to?
Customer: Yes, you can e-mail it to customer@intel.com
{manager hopes this goes somewhere because its a very boring conversation}
Orders department: OK, I'll need some information from you. What company do you work for?
Customer: No problem. I work for Intel
Orders department: Could you spell that for me?
Customer: Er.. yes.. I.... N.... T.... E.... L....
{Upon hearing "Intel" spelled out, all typing within a 20 foot radius ceases simultaneously}
Orders department: O.K. I show an Intel in Santa Clara... is that you?
Customer: That's my company, but my department is located in Hillsboro, Oregon.
Orders department: I show another Intel in Dupont, Washington. Is THAT you?
Customer: Yes, that's my company too. We have offices located in Dupont, but my department is located in Hillsoboro, Oregon.
{chuckles from nearby offices can be heard}
Orders department: Wow... I show Intel companies in Salt Lake City, New Mexico and Arizona... are any of those you?
Customer: Yes, those our my company too... but I am located in Hillsboro, Oregon.
Orders department: Wow... that is alot of offices. Your company must be pretty big.
Customers: Yes, we are pretty big. I think we have about 60,000 employees or so.
{the chuckles have stopped and all that can be heard is weak attempts to stiffle outright laughter}
Orders Department: Are you in the semiconductor buisness?
Customer: actually, we are the semiconductor buisness
{The manager across the hall has now fallen out of his chair... and the laughter stiffling has ceased... its just plane laughter now}
Orders department: I've never heard of Intel before.
Customer: Look down at your computer... at the blue label on the front with the tiny circle around "Intel inside". That's us.
{3 more thuds are heard in nearby offices.
Orders department: Oh... silence... embarassment. You're with THAT Intel.
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Ooops busted!
Damn green badges :D