I’m glad he basically confirmed Half Life 3 by talking about lambda.
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There’s a million reasons why in the professional world it’s common for developers to have some sort of personnel buffer between them and their userbase.
My dad once called a client stupid for continuing to ask for a feature that made no sense. Technically, he asked “why would you want that? What, are you stupid?”
Then he got chewed out by his boss who told him that clients who ask questions aren’t stupid. My dad told her that the client asked a stupid question. His boss told him that it wasn’t a stupid question, that she thought it was a very good question from an uninformed client. So then my dad called his boss stupid.
Then he got sent to sensitivity training. He completed the mandatory hours, got his certificate, and a letter recognizing his difficulties with reasonable discourse vs arguing and calling people stupid. The instructor recommended that my dad shouldn’t interface directly with any clients anymore. So they made my dad’s younger brother his supervisor since he could translate my dad’s comments and questions into more diplomatic terms.
That’s a bad look. He may be smart but that’s really unprofessional. You call them whatever you want behind their backs. You don’t insult clients to their face no matter how stupid they are. He’s lucky he kept his job.
Not a disagreeing with you but I worked with few engineers like this. This is the reason for project managers and sales people as a buffer with clients. They kind of made that joke in Office Space.
My father was an incredible genius with a terrible temper. He softened up over time and eventually would talk to clients politely. And then he died. The end.
See what being polite to clients gets you…your dad had it right in the beginning calling it how he sees it!!!
Also it shows a lack of empathy. 9/10 times it’s not that the client is dumb, but that they’re unfamiliar with processes, recieved conflicting information, have other requirements you don’t know about, have personal things going on, or an endless host of other factors.
It could even be that you didn’t do your job properly in explaining or walking them through. Like if I was a customer and the client-facing representative was so fragile that he’d blow up in my face over a minor inconvenience, I probably wouldn’t feel comfortable asking for something explained a second time.
You don’t insult clients, period. You never know who is listening, who will rat you out, etc. Worse yet, you might send that email to the client too by mistake and get fired.
you might send that email to the client too by mistake and get fired
That’s an unfair dismissal lawsuit: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/smith-oxford-b2616638.html
Some people can deal with stupid people, some can’t. Manager is stupid to not know the difference.
posts a selfie while outdoors
why aren’t you finishing the game i want to play?
Their own forums are literally worse than Twitter.
What’s your point? It’s not like he’s bashing twitter or anything.
The fuck do you think “I’m the only one dumb enough to be on Twitter” means? That Twitter is a great platform?
More of a ‘I’m the only one dumb enough to make public what my social media accounts are and interact with the fanbase’
That’s a completely different sentence, but I guess words don’t need to have any actual meanings and we all just need to interpret things randomly.
Or you could interpret it in context of the rest of the article, but that’d require you to actually read it
I did. He still said what he said.