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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1395025" data-attributes="member: 812">That's one question, to which the answer of course is "If I'd do it for free, I wouldn't call it a job."<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />But there's another question, which is, "Given that you require money, are you going about getting it in the optimal fashion?" Clearly, running software development teams is NOT the most efficient way to acquire money. If I'm JUST getting money at my job, then why aren't I an accountant? Or a salesman?Well, because I, like most others, try to find a balance between doing what I love and paying my rent. I NEED my job to offer me a certain amount of satisfaction, in addition to the paycheck, or else I'm miserable. I think most peole are the same. Even people who run businesses.On the other hand, at least it's always well-expressed! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> And for all I know it's perfectly justified in the case of Paizo -- I don't know anything about the folks what run that company. But pissing off a customer by refusing to work with them -- sheesh. See, if I'm running a company, and a customer says, "Hey, you owe me $15," and I can at least verify that he's not a total flake, heck, give him the money! Then he goes to his buddies and says, "Those guys at Paizo are screwing up my magazine, but they're okay folks," and I've got more customers than I did before.Bad customer service is my number-one peeve. I'd be choked, too. I mean, it's not the money, right? It's just the attitude. It's the sense that as a customer, you don't matter. Which, just to be a LITTLE argumentative (now that we're getting along so well) is not good business practice. It's sure death for any business, in any industry, and it's not a practice that SMART business leaders engage in. Hair's fine, dude.  But those Underoos... Deal. On my way...  Don't do that! Then I'm the weirdo who won't shut up!Okay, posting to SH.</blockquote>

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