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S.Harris

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A Story I saw floating around other forums.
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A business needs a certain number of chicken eggs a day for the products that it produces. It goes into agreement with a large country wide egg supplier to have a fixed amount of eggs delivered each day at an agreed price. For the first couple of weeks, all the required eggs are delivered on time and in full and production is not interrupted, but then one day the business notices that the cartons that contain the eggs have a number of eggs per tray missing, which immediately affects the production.

When the business asks the egg supplier the reasons for the missing eggs, they are told that because there only a limited amount of eggs available country wide, restrictions on the number of eggs delivered had to be made, so that everyone could get some eggs. The business pointed out that this was not what was agreed to in the first place, to which the egg supplier made the statement that it was because the business was using too many eggs per day for their production of wedding cakes, that they had been selected as one of the businesses to have these restrictions placed on them.

When asked how much is too many eggs purchased, the egg supplier said that they were the ones who managed this on a daily basis, and could not give exact numbers of how many or when these types of restrictions would happen. The egg supplier then also mentioned, that once these restrictions where put in place during the month, they would last until the end of the month. This was done to make it fair for all egg purchasers across the country.

And adding further insult to injury, the egg supplier specifically stopped delivery of large brown eggs as they claimed these were what was most threatened by demands. And no reduction in price for egg delivery was allowed, the full agreed price would continue to be asked for the egg delivery service and be expected to be paid or the service would be completely stopped.

This is the way Internet Service Providers deal with their customers in this country.

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Comments anyone?
 
Also take into account that guaranteed throughput services are available, at a costing point that allows the SP to sell it to you and to make profit. Ethernet as technology takes advantage of the fact that not everyone wants full throughput all the time, thus allowing the oversell of capacity. That brings price points down to a degree not possible with PDH/SDH services.
 
Don't forget you'll also get a letter of abuse if you used too many eggs per hour. Once you pass a certain egg-per-hour threshold your ability to unpack and use eggs will be restricted until such time as the egg-using rate has come down to acceptable levels.

It is therefore recommended that your business start baking wedding cakes after hours, say between the hours of 12 and 6 at night.

Never mind using those eggs illegally. If you start using those eggs for anything but baking cakes, say you shared some to someone for making omelettes you might get another letter advising you to stop sharing those eggs! :whistle:
 
I really enjoyed the story. :) If you could included the goose that laid golden eggs, then the story would have taken a dramatic twist!
 
Never mind using those eggs illegally. If you start using those eggs for anything but baking cakes, say you shared some to someone for making omelettes you might get another letter advising you to stop sharing those eggs! :whistle:[/QUOTE]

Ah the good old Packaged 2 Packaged eggs. You got to watch out - those chickens are usually throttled (but that is where Chicken-ala-King comes from?)
 
I wonder what would happen, if we as providers of finance to our clients the ISP's decided to throttle payment as we wanted to make sure that everyone we provided finance for got fair usage of our finance services. And we did this throttling without regard or notification of limits to our clients the ISP's. Of course that would not be legal or fair, after all we did agree to pay a fixed amount for a service which has no such fixed limit. It seems that we will continue to get what we are paying for.
 
Thats why you have to draw up an SLA with the egg supplier. its not your fault for late deliveries, power issues, broken trucks, etc.
you pay for what you get.

That is why i always get full access to my eggs during a specific timeframe to do whatever i want to do with them. no limitations whatsoever.
 
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