Clients Are StupidI once had to train a client on how to use their new website. I said, "point the mouse at that button." They looked at me with a quizzical expression, picked up the mouse and held it to the screen. Can you beat this bit of client stupidity?
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rob, Sun 28 Dec 2003, 22:47)
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I've just remembered another oneI work for an IT training company and one of my former colleagues was our resident "teccy", responsible for keeping the network afloat etc. One day an ink-jet fax machine ran out of ink, so he wandered off to get a new cartridge. Moments later he returned, a new Epson cartridge in his hands, unperturbed by the fact that the fax machine was actually made by Ricoh. Anyway, there followed a few seconds of him trying to force the cartridge into the machine without success, before he decided to compare the new cartridge to the old one. After a short while, he excitedly points out that the sole difference between the cartridges was a small plastic lump on the new one which the old one didn't have.
Now, what would *you* do at this point? Put the new one back and find the right one for the machine? Of course you would. Not this guy. He wandered out to his car, returned with an angle grinder, and proceeded to reshape the cartridge. There was a scream, the angle grinder stopped suddenly, and he ran in, covered with ink.
(, Mon 29 Dec 2003, 11:03, Reply)
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