Why do we hate marketing personals so much?

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

For one I hate that they sell applications no-one wrote, and then push you to complete it yesterday...

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Lost User

"Don't sell the skin of the bear, until it is dead"

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Lost User

Whenever you come in contact with them, directly or indirectly, just put your fingers into your ears and sing a little. Don't listen to any of their fantasies and just ignore them. Double experience points if you resist the urge to listen when they actually turn up and try to explain to us how to do our jobs. Ignoring them is not taken as rude, as they have only a loose grasp of reality anyway.

The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

Ron Anders

Because we're engineers. Engineers and marketing are like dogs and cats. Some snuggle, most war.

OriginalGriff

No, no - remember: they have expense accounts. Use that fact.

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Lost User

marketing drives innovation via necessity being the mother of invention.

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Lost User

So do some other weirdos I don't even want te be lying dead in one cascet with.

The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

Lost User

I forgot to ask: What do you call a marketing guy in a tub full of acid? A solution.

The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

Albert Holguin

:laugh:

Albert Holguin

Both are necessary roles in business.... you might not like them, but it's hard for a business to keep a constant stream of work/funds without them. They sell the dream, we make it happen. :)

KarstenK

Marketing is the skin of your code. So if you hate them your code is misunderstood. :rolleyes:

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W Balboos GHB

Yeah - but look how well that strategy worked out for Bill Gates.

Ravings en masse^

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Mark_Wallace

I detest marketing morons because they're so bad at what they do. They talk about themselves as though they're great persuaders, with silver tongues, who can make customers buy stuff that they don't want; but mainly they're just morons who have no idea how to use words/psychology to convince anyone to do anything, they're just incessant, persistent, un-get-rid-of-able nags, who cling to customers' backs like a sleep-paralysis hag until they sign the bare minimum. The only thing they seem to be even remotely capable of talking up is themselves. There are far, far, better ways of doing what they do, and I've lost years of my own lifetime teaching them to do it better (with marked results), only to see them almost immediately fall back into their moronic ways. Speaking generically, don't waste your time on the bloody morons. Your time is better spent associating with people who have brains in their skulls.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!