nobody is gonna care but i gotta rant
been looking for a SaaS supplier for a work project for a few months, have hit stumbling blocks on the technical side for each solution we've evaluated so far. the closest we've come so far we have made it through a technical proof of concept and a contracts review, but just have 2 key things to iron out before we'd sign a deal. the sales/bizdev guy we're working with at this company is, without a doubt, the most incompetent and unprofessional moron i've ever worked with in my career. and he's got some SVP title too, at a pretty decent sized public company.
he only writes like one email a week and always misses answering at least one of our questions. he never remembers past conversations, so we're always covering the same ground again on calls. he starts every single call late by pulling up his notes about us as a client and saying ok ok ok ok who we talking to ok ok ok and then slowly working his way back up to where we were the following week. he gets stupid shit wrong like time zones and people's names. he would give a used car salesman a bad name when it comes to smarm.
we have one redline in the contract that we need them to concede or we can't do the deal, and no matter how many times we explain it, he can't seem to figure it out. he lives in Austin, i'm concerned it's catamount (isn't that what catamount does?).
so we've basically moved on to evaluating other providers while we try and see if this bozo can get it together.
/rant