Clueless people are skeery...
Spike's Bitches 21 Gunn Salute
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
(To be fair, the kind of selling we do really does require person-to-person contact, because the pricing will vary depending on the kind of usage the client wants. But still. Amusing.)
exhales
I can finally breathe again.
I have to run one last mega-important errand right now but I think I am going to do one last post when I get back detailing exactly what everyone helped me get through. If only so I can finally say all of it out loud.
There is just not enough thanks in the world...
Yeah, I can see that, Jess, but still...
Skeery.
Brownie batter is tasty. I think I coudl drink 6 oz of it now and then.
My favorite was the one with the glue...they could save themselves some time by saying "I'm sorry. I don't understand." Good lord, dumb people with $.
Bwah!
"Can the copy be 30 percent more cool and 40 percent more witty."
Oh, here's a good one:
Money quote from the help desk, though:
"Your issue is beyond the scope of our training/experience, but it sounds like you know what you're doing, I'm sure you'll figure it out"
they could save themselves some time by saying "I'm sorry. I don't understand."
I'm thinking the problem may be them not knowing when they don't understand.
A good part of my job consists of me saying "I'm sorry. I don't understand." to programmers and getting them to 'splain so I can interpret for our users. I'm going to go do some of that right now.
I looked through the clueless clients and they don't seem to have the issue I've had with several clients: they want Web pages that print out better. Not a printable page; just ones that look better when they do what they apparently normally do with web pages--print them out and then read them. The actual instructions they gave me were, "Put this part on a different page." After several e-mails, in became obvious they just wanted that part to print on a different page.