and my post count will suffer... AKA: Banned in a different way

[theGinsue]

Congrats on the job Byte.

Does this mean that when you do get onto the site you won't be as snarky as you've been? Just askin.

Hopefully a vendor is buying haha... Our NetApp rep always offers to buy rounds of shots when he takes us to lunch.

Geesh. We've spent a LOT of money on NetApp equipment and our rep hasn't even offered us cheap advertising trinkets.

two more words:
Prohibited items

I know the feeling. Just to get to take my phone to the door of the building I work in (it can't go further than that) I can't have one with a camera in it. Do any of you know how hard it is to find a non-Jitterbug style phone without a camera? Practically impossible.

and they all went home without any of the women

Oh damn man. That struck close to home - I'm an IT (Sys Admin) too. Either that or I'm a fetish porn actor with an upcoming audition for a movie including a dwarf, a chimpanzee, and a trapeze. You decide which seems more probable.

[cfortune]

Congrats on the job Byte.

Geesh. We've spent a LOT of money on NetApp equipment and our rep hasn't even offered us cheap advertising trinkets.

This has only happened twice. I get the impression the dude likes to drink and just doesn't want to do one alone. I always decline though, I don't need to ever drink around the people I work with.

We have a lot of contact with vendors due to being allowed to go to events like VMUGs (VMWare Users Group, IT roadshow, etc). So people are usually calling our desk phones and not upper management to get POCs in the door and what not.

NetSource is taking me to the UFC fight on Saturday since we allowed them to come in for a Veeam demo on Friday. I got to go to Del Frisco's to listen to Soft Choice talk about ESXi 5 last week (been there a few times, can't say I'd ever go on my own $ haha). Its a pretty sweet gig other than all the phone calls you start getting. Some reps will call you almost daily even after you've told them you're not interested in their product.