Bribery schmibery. Make them pay for their stupidity
Bribery schmibery. Make them pay for their stupidity
Brought to you by this week's dumb required corporate training.
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When I worked IT, our honeywell rep used to swing by at random and bring the entire building doughnuts. And I'm not talking gas station doughnuts, I'm talking doughnuts from the best bakery in the state (which happened to be local). Perhaps, not surprisingly we used a lot of honeywell stuff. It isn't hard to bribe IT guys.
Honeywell's consumer products are trash
Honestly, their comercial ones are getting that way too. Like who the hell needs a touchscreen on an industrial thermal printer; thats just one more thing to easily break in an industrial environment. And god forbid you want a replacement touch screen because a new one is half the cost of a new printer.
it's because implementing an existing touch screen module and then telling a bunch of code monkeys in a 3rd world country to write a barely functional UI for it is actively cheaper than engineering, sourcing, assembling and testing keypads with physical buttons or even a membrane keyboard these days
using a touch screen also means they can put the same mass produced PCB into 40 different products instead of needing a custom button pattern for each. just tell the code monkeys to update the UI. there's a lot of economic arguments for the use of touch screens, but it sure doesn't make the field worker's lives any easier.
a lot of it is just using the name via licensing.. not made by them.
That still says something about their vetting and quality control.
And there is a lot of fake stuff when looking for their products as well.
Took me multiple tries to get some genuine? ptm7950, or at least one that actually works.
That's why they need the donut bribe.
Took way too long for me to remember that they did more than make thermostats when reading your comment.
Like, I know they do, but I pass my Honeywell thermostat multiple times daily so my brain immediately got confused as to why an IT team needed to regularly buy thermostats to the point a salesman was involved.
Colleague messages me: I need your help with something, are you available?
Me: What is it? I'll fit it in somewhere
Colleague: I've got choclate cookies
Me: I'll be right over
An anti-virus company's rep comes by every couple of months, always bringing stuff that we distribute randomly.
I have a water bottle, bag, notebook (paper, not computer kind), and backpack already :)
My HP rep would buy me lunch every now and then and me and him would always talk about how bad their printers are.