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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 July 2002 10:36 pm, Nick Kew wrote:
Well, in the Linux world there's RHCE and LPI - to name two organizations that offer training & certification. 'Tis but a small step ...
reminds me of a call i got almost 3 years ago ;)
Sales person: Hi, i'm from [some company] offering redhat trainsing to systems
administrators. I've noticed you work for [x comapny] as
systems administrator, would you be interested in sitting the
exams with us?
Me: No thank you.
Sales person: what exactly do you do at [x comapny]
Me: *Explain what i did*
Sales person: it will give you future oppertunities and blah, blah, blah, blah
blahblahbvlah....
*in the time she was talking, i went to starbucks, bought a latte, and came
back to the office. everyone was listening to my ammusing comments made as i
was trying to shake of the sales woman*, then..
Sales person: What is stopping you sir? it's only x ammount of pounds, a x%
discount from the normal prices! Just give me your credit card
number over the phone now, and we'll send you the detail in the
post stright away,
Me: I don't have a credit card.
Sales person: Ohh, may i ask why, sir?
Me: Sure - i'm 17.
*CLICK*.
yet another pushy person sales person sorted out ;)
sadly, that method doesn't work anymore :p
pushy saleswoman called today to sell me double glazing, although my whole
house is double glazed. how do you get rid of them?! (no phone sales people
in greece!)
~ Theo
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Theo Zourzouvillys
http://zozo.org.uk/
You will stop at nothing to reach your objective, but only because your
brakes are defective.
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