by Chris C. September 16, 2018
Get the Lock Assmug. A common rent-seeking practice where vendors design structures and contracts to give them control of customer data and code.
The steps involved in vendor lock-in are:
1) Identify lower-IQ management to engage with
2) Insert clauses into contracts where vendor retains customer data and limit customer access
3) Insert clauses into contracts where code development commissioned by the customer is proprietary to the vendor
4) Say whatever is necessary to ensure customer is at ease with the clauses, but ensure no such record
5) Sell customer's own data back to them, piecemeal
6) Resell the output of the code each time it is run
7) Collect economic profits
The steps involved in vendor lock-in are:
1) Identify lower-IQ management to engage with
2) Insert clauses into contracts where vendor retains customer data and limit customer access
3) Insert clauses into contracts where code development commissioned by the customer is proprietary to the vendor
4) Say whatever is necessary to ensure customer is at ease with the clauses, but ensure no such record
5) Sell customer's own data back to them, piecemeal
6) Resell the output of the code each time it is run
7) Collect economic profits
Vendor Staff: "The regulators of First Common Bank found evidence of overcharging . First Common needs us to pull account numbers on which customers got hit. I wrote up the query and pulled the data while I was on the phone."
Vendor Mgnt: "That's great. Let's write up a Statement of Work detailing requirements. Put in a long time frame for delivery, like a month or two. We'll price at your annual salary so it looks like we did some math. What is it again, like $127,400?"
Vendor Staff: "We can't charge that."
Vendor Mgnt: "Yes we can. Where else are they getting the data? They don't have it. I personally negotiated the vendor lock-in."
Vendor Staff: "We charged them $127,400 last time."
Vendor Mgnt: "That's great. Let's write up a Statement of Work detailing requirements. Put in a long time frame for delivery, like a month or two. We'll price at your annual salary so it looks like we did some math. What is it again, like $127,400?"
Vendor Staff: "We can't charge that."
Vendor Mgnt: "Yes we can. Where else are they getting the data? They don't have it. I personally negotiated the vendor lock-in."
Vendor Staff: "We charged them $127,400 last time."
by human-natured December 12, 2019
Get the vendor lock-inmug. bowl-locked is when you are taking a dump on the toilet and you feel like you still have some left in the tank, when in reality, your bowels are emmpty. this can typically last anywhere from a few seconds up to a couple minutes or more.
by Sgt T November 17, 2020
Get the bowl-lockedmug. by dragon_slayer36 October 1, 2017
Get the shong lock dongmug. by SpaceCoreFromPortal June 20, 2021
Get the Lockmug. Probably the most annoying button on your keyboard, especially when gaming. When you're meant to strafe and click "A", you get destroyed AND when you open chat and begin typing something, you think OMG! I HATE THIS DUMB CAPS LOCK BUTTON WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE RIGHT NEXT TO A??!!111 as you have to delete everything you typed, turn off caps lock, and then type it again. Oh and while you're typing someone snipes you from across the map and you have to re-type EVERYTHING.
And it can also just be annoying when you are just normally typing and you click caps instead of "A"
This is why some keyboards have the right side of the caps button indented so you won't accidentally hit it when gaming/typing. It isn't foolproof but it helps.
And it can also just be annoying when you are just normally typing and you click caps instead of "A"
This is why some keyboards have the right side of the caps button indented so you won't accidentally hit it when gaming/typing. It isn't foolproof but it helps.
by Monster dood October 13, 2021
Get the caps lockmug.