Posted by asdf on 05/06/07 04:25

"Neredbojias" <neredbojias@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9927B83829812nanopandaneredbojias@208.49.80.251...
> On Fri, 04 May 2007 03:01:23 GMT asdf scribed:
>
>>
>> "Neredbojias" <neredbojias@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:Xns9925BC4DF13F5nanopandaneredbojias@208.49.80.251...
>>> On Thu, 03 May 2007 18:17:13 GMT Fred scribed:
>>>
>>>> A client tells you to insert line breaks into a document because
>>>> The text does not wrap properly.
>>>>
>>>> They don't understand that text size is a unkown variable
>>>> Arrg!
>>>
>>> Oh come on! If I couldn't explain that within 5 minutes to even the
>>> most irascible of clients, I should be selling ice cream cones!
>>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> ...ah yes, but explaining is one thing, understanding is another...
>
> Well, I'll admit that showmanship may play a part in the scope of
> credibility. Tell ya what, next time a client makes an inane suggestion,
> laugh like a chimpanzee for at least 5 minutes. That'll get his
> attention.
>
> --
> Neredbojias
> He who laughs last sounds like an idiot.

....actually, I recently had first-hand experience of a very similar problem
client. Thank God that one's in the can. I have since discovered his
*extremely* high staff turnover due to his willfully argumentative nature,
and stoic refusal to accept 'bleeding obvious' facts... so, you see, clients
like that *do* exist, and in those circumstances, much better to withdraw
gracefully than to waste hours and days messing about trying to prove to
them that their idea is dumb...

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