Interesting sales call

[Rick Bowers]

At Thursday 4/17/2008 04:23 PM, you wrote:
>On Thursday 17 April 2008 03:05:41 pm Stuart Biggerstaff wrote:
> > A sales guy dropped by here--a personal cold call, of all things.  And
> > when he didn't get in to see one of us left something--a hard drive
> > completely beat to hell in a plastic bag with his business card.
> >
> > My question was whether this meant "We can even recover data from a
> > drive in this condition," or "We can do this to all your cast-off hard
> > drives, and no one can ever recover data from them," or "Pay us, or
> > we'll come in and do this to all your hard drives."
> >
> > Turns out the least interesting but least scary.  They do
> > "Environmentally Responsible Asset Disposition".
> >
>
>Hmmm... they make "cold calls" and leave the asset(s) at the prospective
>customer's facility. I /guess/ that could be considered "environmentally
>responsible"... ;)

So you "responsibly" dumped the hard drive into your closest garbage 
receptacle ;-)

Aren't "personal" and "cold call" mutually exclusive??

~Rick


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