From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 3 14:59:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0DE437B41A for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 14:59:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g33MxJr67582; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 00:59:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <00d001c1db63$307abd40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Rick Hamell" Cc: "Mike Meyer" , References: Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 00:59:19 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rick writes: > Microsoft dosen't have technical support > people at all except for the very high-level > tier 3 group. All the technical support > people are contracted out to other companies. That depends on the product, and on the support category. I believe Premier support is 100% Microsoft. > Every once in a while they'll get someone > above average, but they tend to get promoted > or a real job. The average job lifetime in technical support, industry-wide, is about 18 months, IIRC. It's a really boring job, overall, and often very frustrating as well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message