We are a small company...a small company. We cannot play with the big boys yet on the ground, why do my bosses want to try in the office?I need them to get real and get a clue.

Simplifying things, solving 75% of our paperwork issues? Training would do that, but it would require our sales manager to actually go in the field and train these people. She cannot be in the office 3 days out of the week and expect her people to pick this stuff up by osmosis!

But, noooo, let's not do that. Let's try and dummy-proof the system instead.

I'm not saying it wouldn't be a good idea, but there is no way they are going to want to spend the money to set up the kind of integrated system needed to link us to the field and include automatic updates and data carry-over.

I repeat - we are a SMALL company!

I'm thinking I may have to give up my fic & graphics journals over there and move them over here. My main journal is a paid account, but when it runs out...

The ups and downs are getting ridiculous!

Would someone please explain why I'm being defensive when I try and explain why I don't know where a formula came from and why I feel justified in being unhappy with a vendor when they've been accepting the formula for 6 years without comment?

I like my boss, I do, but when I try and explain things, I get told to calm down, he's not blaming me, and I don't need to be defensive. He interrupts to tell me this.

Am I being defensive? Maybe, but I do feel I should be allowed to finish my comment before he decides I'm just being defensive. I think I've got a right to be unhappy when they haven't said a damn word about the formula for SIX years and suddenly today it's a problem???

I can't even vent because then I'm being defensive.

I swear, some places just need to be avoided like the plague! Okay, I work in construction, and one of our subdivisions is in a part of town that has long history & reputation as a "bad" part of town.

Sure enough, our builder headed into our model today to do some maintenance, and found that it had been broken into again (4th time) and now there appears to be some drug paraphenalia in there.

I'm all for trying to help build up run-down parts of town, trying to help revitalize them, but if the community doesn't want to be part of that, then they really shouldn't complain when businesses avoid the area.

Honestly, until they take back their own streets, they shouldn't ask us to come in. Our sales person has been threatened by a drugged up invader, almost every major item has been stolen (twice), a car has been driven through the garage door and into the wall, gun shots have damaged windows, doors, and walls, and now this.