Pay the people who do good work, appropriately and do not undercut with inexperienced cheap sweat shop to make your 90 day quota numbers..
IF you live by numbers you exclude people.. if you exclude people you disenfranchise customers, if you disenfranchise customers you loose credibility and integrity, if you loose integrity and credibility you will disappear or will be absorbed by someone else or even fall into corruption. IMHO On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:50 AM, John Doe <hornetl...@yahoo.com> wrote: > ** > Oh Matt...... > > Your intentions are good, I appreciate that. Unfortunately I have watched > our premier support tank this year. Cases are now taking 6 months to > resolve instead of weeks. We are constantly getting the runaround. No > updates take place until the morning before our conference call. They are > so busy they can't concentrate on any one case from any one company. Our > premier support has been taken off our cases to cover "higher" grossing > customer's cases. It's an instance of being spread too thin. Folks who > have been around premier support engineering (not managers, but actual > engineers with lots of Remedy problems daily) for a while and have a > barometer understand. BMC is growing and I understand that. It's just > unfortunate the engineers have to suffer. Engineering is not sales and > cannot be managed the same. Familiarity does not equal experience. > > Premier support has such a large umbrella. All of us agree with that. > Hiring engineers into that umbrella that do not have the proper experience > and then cross training them is one thing. But turning them loose to support > a customer and give troubleshooting advice for modules they are not very > familiar with is really a hard thing to understand. It's almost as if they > are learning as we go. I can understand this from a non-technical > perspective. But we are dealing with very technical stuff here. > > It just seems to me and I mean this very respectfully, Premier Support is > being staffed similar to a Help Desk now. The problem with this is > obvious. I mean nothing bad to the engineers because they are trying and > giving their best. It's just an unfortunate circumstance due to growth and > unexpected demand. Which is good.......for sales. But that has to be > shored up on the back-end with engineers. > > What you are starting to see is there just isn't that much Remedy (BMC > products as a whole) engineering experience out there. You cannot > manufacture that in a week or two. Especially, with the new and innovative > products BMC is pioneering. > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Guillaume Rheault <guilla...@dcshq.com> > *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > *Sent:* Thursday, October 13, 2011 8:27 AM > > *Subject:* Re: Atrium SSO and CAC Authentication > > Hi Matt, > > Are you volunteering to be our "BMC Support expediter" ? > Beware of what you are getting into ;-) > > Guillaume > > ________________________________________ > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] > on behalf of Matt Laurenceau [matt.laurenc...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 3:32 PM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Re: Atrium SSO and CAC Authentication > > Thanks for the heads-up. > > What do you mean by "BMC support are quite lacking." ? (let's fix this :) > > Take care, > > > Matt Laurenceau > Senior Community Ambassador, BMC Communities > matthieu_laurenc...@bmc.com > Follow me @Matt_L > Skype: matt.laurenceau > > > On 12 oct. 2011, at 21:00, Mike Ziniti <versi...@aol.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone successfully implemented Atrium SSO using CAC authentication? > If > > so I'm looking for some help on how to correctly set it up since the > > documentation and BMC support are quite lacking. > > > > TIA, > > > > Mike > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://ars-action-request-system.1093659.n2.nabble.com/Atrium-SSO-and-CAC-Authentication-tp6886321p6886321.html > > Sent from the ARS (Action Request System) mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > > attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" > > > _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ -- Patrick Zandi _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
