RasterWeb: Rambles: users

"Yeah... I don't know anything... I'm a USER baby... so why dontcha kill me..."

"Having 'users' is like having kids..."

That's what I told one of the "users" when they asked how I put up with so much of their crap...

Actually, I elaborated by saying that having children makes you a patient person, and equips you better to deal with problems. Especially irrational ones. You know, when someone tells you the printer isn't working right, so you start sending test pages to it until they admit it was an OE (operator error). Is it that different from arguing with a two year old?

hmmm?

Hey, come on! I love my little users... and sometimes it actually is rewarding to help someone, but I think after you repeat something over a dozen times, and they still ask you how to do it (even though they appear to write it down, and then, I dunno, lose it!) but after the upteenth bazillion time telling them how to do some simple little task, you start to think there's a learning disability, or maybe they're just some sort of idiot savant genius type, who can't remember thos tiny little details of life... you decide...

  Last Modified: 04.02.2001 by rasterboy