Eeny, meeny, miny, moe...

We've been getting a ton of vendor visits lately...and they're always bringing free stuff, like marketing pens with their names on it, or t-shirts even. It kinda cracks me up, because we have only 10 vendors to choose from across 5 business units. They're gonna get work, no matter what. It's not like it used to be when we had a lovely, large pool of vendors to choose from, and they actually had to compete for work. Now we have to be careful of overloading them. It's insane, especially when they tell all the business units to send their work to one particular vendor. We do that...they get overloaded...they do sucky work...we get told not to use them. Makes no sense to me, or to anyone else who has to deal with the vendors on a day-to-day basis. Now it's basically a game of eeny, meeny, miny, moe to choose who you send work to, and hope they do a good job. The joys of being a project manager with less-than-ideal vendors...