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Happy American Election Day<\/strong>!\u00c2\u00a0 No matter one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s politics, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always nice to at least pretend like we have a say in our government.\u00c2\u00a0 I pretended via early absentee ballot a month ago.\u00c2\u00a0 There is no segue from this topic into SolidWorks, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll just change the topic now.<\/p>\n

VARs are a funny breed.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s funny I used the word breed because they aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really bred.\u00c2\u00a0 More to the opposite, they tend to merge quite frequently (making less of them, not more).\u00c2\u00a0 They also tend to be quirky.\u00c2\u00a0 I recently was contacted by my account manager\u00c2\u00a0at my VAR via email.\u00c2\u00a0 He stated that he was keeping in touch, and asked if there was anything where I needed assistance.<\/p>\n

I responded via email with a list of three open items that need attention, nothing terribly urgent.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, after three weeks, I still have not received a reply.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe there is a chance the email got lost in spam folder or somewhere else in cyberspace.\u00c2\u00a0 It happens.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Though, I doubt my email was tagged as spam since I have multiple communications with the VAR without any issues.\u00c2\u00a0 It is possible the internet just forgot to forward my email on to my account manager\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s email address too.\u00c2\u00a0 Not likely, but possible.\u00c2\u00a0 However, the pattern I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen suggests more that my email was filed in some buried to-do Outlook folder by the receiver, and then forgotten about by him.<\/p>\n

So, I called him today.\u00c2\u00a0 The issues still aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t urgent.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d just like to be validated by his acknowledgement.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lunch time, so I left a message.\u00c2\u00a0 To be continued\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

(It should be noted that I’ve made a couple of exaggerations in this article for entertainment value.\u00c2\u00a0 Follow-up article will have details.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy American Election Day!\u00c2\u00a0 No matter one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s politics, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always nice to at least pretend like we have a say in our government.\u00c2\u00a0 I pretended via early absentee ballot a month ago.\u00c2\u00a0 There is no segue from this topic into SolidWorks, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll just change the topic now. VARs are a funny breed.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s funny … Continue reading “V.A.R. mania (voting too)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,157],"tags":[323,324,271,1556],"series":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complaints","category-var","tag-account-manager","tag-contact","tag-issues","tag-var"],"yoast_head":"\nV.A.R. mania (voting too) - SolidWorks Legion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=127\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"V.A.R. mania (voting too) - SolidWorks Legion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Happy American Election Day!\u00c2\u00a0 No matter one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s politics, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always nice to at least pretend like we have a say in our government.\u00c2\u00a0 I pretended via early absentee ballot a month ago.\u00c2\u00a0 There is no segue from this topic into SolidWorks, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll just change the topic now. 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