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

  • sundrayEnglish
    49·
    5 months ago

    Engineer: “It does one thing.”

    Sales/marketing: “It does ANYTHING!”

  • boonhet@lemm.ee
    7·
    5 months ago

    Eh when sales says “we made this” it means the whole company in my mind, not them stealing the credit.

    Now we sales says “we’ll make this” is when you have a problem.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      That was it. This started because there was a slide deck that showed this huge project that I’ve spent the last year on. This was 100% a software project. On the slide deck saying thanks, all of engineering got a single bullet point, while marketing and sales got oh, the other 90% of the slide. You know, just that pesky task of building the damn thing, that’s just over here, in the corner, it’s everyone else who really did the work.

      All for people getting credit where credit is due, but man did that feel like a slap in the face to me. Sad thing is it happens all the time, this is nothing new, just a regular day of the week

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    Eng: so we were discussing this concept, and it’s something we might be able to put together in 6-8 months. Would th-

    Sales: HEY JIM LETS GO SELL THIS FUCKIN THING

    Eng: …what.

  • Auzy@beehaw.org
    6·
    5 months ago

    Ahh yes. I switched companies because some new sales guy I discovered was getting paid more than me after I was there 9 years.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      I mean, I completely understand them. You just build the products. Running and building them doesn’t bring in money - that costs money! You know what brings in money? Sales. That’s why they deserve such huge amounts of money, because they’re bringing in money!

      /s if that isn’t horribly obvious. They never seem to connect that without a product there’s nothing to sell, do they?