When Engineering Met Sales - Comedy in Place (E88) 

"The power consumption is going to be really low." Hilarious.

Very funny story about "You wanted them bonded?" I laughed because it has a grain of truth in it.

I’m an engineer, not a sales guy, but I pulled a similar one with a customer who queried a change we had made that they didn’t know about.

Spending 20 years in the corporate world I learned to be always friends with the guys at IT. Seven minutes of your comedy convinced me to focus on the engineers. But the last minute of the bit made me rethink everything all over again. Sales is where I put all the social effort from now on :D

Great story! Laughed so hard. We all need a Bob at some point in our lives.

This story reminds me of the time a customer said to me "That's like selling a car without a bumper" when I was trying to sell a shear and the backgage was an option since most shears had at least a manual backgage to begin with. : )

That was funny! It was also mind-blowing because it is so far out of my realm of experience. Thanks for the laughs.

Cut and go ... the way of the world. That's why a Master Artist is ahead of the Master Engineers.

I've had a few of these moments with customers; both being helped when a software developer and helping the team as a project manager. I think a quick wit is essential for any business communicator.

That is a close one. How he ever got paid extra I cannot imagine. That is like selling a car and asking "you wanted a drive shaft in the car too?"

So amazing. So often sales throws the engineers under the bus. At one point, I worked as a field engineer for Ricoh (yes, the copier company) about 2 years after I started with them, there was this young sales lady...lets just say the her name was the French equivalent of Susan Jack...we ALL had such a crush on her. She was ruthless when it came to sales, but, even more so when backing up us field engineers she worked with when something got borked. We loved just how easy on the eyes she was: literally every fantasy visual of the "I hope I get THAT sales lady" (a mix or Japanese and French in appearance, more Japanese, though. But she had morals and ethics. I had, personally worked with her on several large deployments for government entities (keeping it vague). We actually had a good rapport--completely platonic as I saw the huge rock on her left ring finger and I had survived a horrible divorce (was 24 hours from death due to the aftermath a year later--LONG STORY)--and, she seemed to know, how all us nerds looked at her, however, for whatever reason, there was this one afternoon when I was in the office between field calls that she came into the tech room and grabbed me--figuratively, although, I would not have minded literally...;)--and asked me to come help her with a connection with her computer in her office. I followed her, trying to hide the love sick puppy look on the way, and she showed me the issue--can't remember what it was to save my life--but as she was explaining to me what was going on, she bent over to grab a cable under her desk--from the waist, not the knees--and I got to see just how lacy and frilly her "thong" if you could call it that was beneath her professional slacks with that white fitted blouse that gave no indication of a bra underneath. Needless to say, that, due to my monumental effort to remain professional, I assisted in reconnecting her computer to the network and then excused myself after wishing her a pleasant rest of her day. I was sad, almost to tears when I got news that she was let go for not meeting quota.

Greetings from Brazilian Engineer. I loved it , laughed and then I cried a bit.

I was in the computer business. Totally believable. I hope this sales guy retired very comfortably 😂

Great stuff! Reminds me of some of those good time at, well, I shouldn't say where, but when I was at "Outel" (same, but only different), a technician was a smartass who always had a great response for another tech not pulling his/her weight. He also knew how to brag about what he accomplished while "thinking outside the box", or when the BKM was insufficient.

Lol. That Bob guy was earning his paycheck

For confirmation: I laughed at your story about Bob and Flockheed.

Lockheed Martin

wow, when sales has balls to save his colleges

I'll share this with my digital integrated circuits class next week :)

My eletronic engineer side is so happy to see this

It is not a bug, it is a feature!

A nerd with his own Tardis it doesn't get any nerdier.

Bob is a super salesman.

That was moment he knew engineering and sales could get along 😂

After 35 years of being in engineering & design I totally understand where you're coming from. Read the specs 1st..LOL

Bob saved you guys. That's great!

Fun story I can relate. I sold into semiconductor and packaging for some years. More interesting, was trying to bridge sales and engineering as a product manager... both sides hate you! ... ...not really.

Bob is smarter than the devil 😂

So I guess you didn't give the guys the JTAG io pin chain so that could verify connectivity. 😊

Sir i like/loved your comedy!!! Me also like to make Charts & Graphs Statistics,....Ahhahhahhahahahahahhahahaa

As an software developer I share your opinion about sales )))

HAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHHA (me laughing out loud)

Great story. And, I adsolutely believe it !

That was great!!

LOL, one of your best stories!

That sounds like my mentality lol

That was amazingly funny

Oh SNAP that was Funny!

So you designed onion chips

Don, I did laugh. I'm guessing Bob's degree was a BS?

it's not a bug it's a feature you wouldn't remove a feature, would you?

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Can I order one Bob please?

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Bullshit, no quality engineer was involved