Re: ADT Essential Wireless Package

["tourman" <rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yup ! Methinks you hit that nail on the head

:
> Bob Worthy wrote:

> Look everyone, Here's my take on this ridiculously long thread.
>
> If I'd have known that " J " was J. Sloud I would not have lifted a
> finger to respond to his well known notions, born of ingorance. I have
> a feeling that a lot of others here made the same mistake. If it is, in
> fact, the same person,  everyone would/should have realized that we've
> been down this trail before with him. He's an ADT corporate employee,
> dealing with large projects, who realizes what ADT has done to it's
> reputation by getting into the residential arena, and ruining the image
> of *his* job. When he sees someone here say something about how bad ADT
> is, he takes it personally and thinks that it applies to what he does.
> (Which, by the way, I think everyone has stated, or would agree,  that
> ADT does a fabulous job in the commercial arena and should have stayed
> there). You'd think that by now he'd realilze that he's pissing into
> the wind by supporting ADT's residental divisions and reputation, in a
> group of independent small alarm dealers. The fact that after all these
> years, he's again begun his troll like endeavors here, (which, by the
> way, anyone who's been here long enough should remember that this is
> how he entered the Newsgroup) which he knows he will never win,
> intrigues me. Perhaps he's upset by the eagerly awaited demise of his
> good friend Bass.
>
> It's quite obvious that he has no knowlege whatsoever about the
> residential trade or about the practices of ADT in this market. He's
> typifies the consummate "engineer" or "computer specialist" that we all
> run into,  that thinks because he knows one thing, he knows all about
> what you do and it must be pretty easy to do something that seems
> related .... and so has all the answers to tell you why you are wrong
> and why you should do something his way, instead of the way that you
> know is right, through experience.
>
> Probably best to treat him the same as Mc Weirdo and Mc Paul. At least
> until he comes back down from his present perch. As otherwise, he seems
> to be a pretty decent guy.  This thread is MUCH too long and much ado
> about what we, who are in direct contact with ADT in the trenches,  all
> know is true and he doesn't. He'll never be there and therefore never
> be able to admit that the company he works for is a slut in the
> residential market, as we all know it is.
>
> Impasse.