The vendor-client relationship

By stretch | Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 8:56 a.m. UTC

We engineers often revel in amusement at the expense of vendors. Here's one for those on the other side of the fence.

Thanks to @tonhe for pointing this out. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much information regarding the origin of the video; if anyone can shed some light on who made it I'd love to know.

About the Author

Jeremy Stretch is a freelance networking engineer, instructor, and the maintainer of PacketLife.net. He currently lives in Fairfax, Virginia, on the edge of the Washington, DC metro area. Although primarily an R&S guy, he likes to get into everything, and runs a free network training lab out of his basement for fun. You can contact him by email or follow him on Twitter.

Posted in Humor

Comments

Daniel (guest) commented on Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 10:51 a.m. UTC

It's so accurate it's spooky

Jesse Krembs (guest) commented on Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 1:21 p.m. UTC

What's funny (and sad) is that it runs all the way through the client-vendor-manufacturer world.

Aaron Conaway (guest) commented on Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 2:16 p.m. UTC

I think I'll try that at the restaurant at lunch. I wonder if they'll take a PO.

Ivan Pepelnjak (guest) commented on Friday, June 5, 2009 at 12:27 p.m. UTC

Fantastic. I'm positive our sales team will enjoy it :)

mrj (guest) commented on Friday, June 5, 2009 at 7:52 p.m. UTC

Totally felt guilty with this one.

cat (guest) commented on Monday, June 8, 2009 at 5:27 p.m. UTC

I would be trying to get a discount when cisco try to sell me they rewarmed soup for 50 dollars...

Tony (guest) commented on Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. UTC

Sweet, I got credit for sending on crap I found on the interwebs :D

Andrew (guest) commented on Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 11:35 a.m. UTC

Nice find!

Theres info on the Youtube page as to who made it:

Produced by Scofield Editorial, Inc.

http://www.vendorclientvideo.com/

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