Monday, April 24, 2006

Who's On First?

Not being at the meeting, one has only the Rashomon version:

Voice 1 (President emeritus): Marketing decided that they don't like the current OEM deal we have - no profit - and need to revive the old product development that was dropped 3 years ago. That was Harry's decision back then to drop it, no wonder he's gone.

Voice 2 (Veep Engineering): This idea is just from the President Emeritus. Nobody in Marketing really wants it, they're just going along with him till the idea blows over. We have to think about developing products for the future, not from before my time here, when Harry was running things.

Voice 3 (Director Marketing): We're just exploring ideas, it's one of those on the table. I heard we have an old product ready to go. Harry told me about it but I wasn't in-house back then.

Voice 4: Y'know, I think Harry did a cost analysis and sales projection on the old product development.

Voice 1: This is a top priority.

Voice 2: This is a bottom priority.

Voice 3: We have to explore the priorities.