Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Scribe]

BIG true. I wish my son would buy in to Stoicism, but alas....

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

BIG true. I wish my son would buy in to Stoicism, but alas....

I was a high-flying philosophy student in my undergrad days. Studied a little bit of most systems. My big takeaway was that most philosophers I studied got something right, but nobody had an airtight answer for everything.

So my own personal philosophical viewpoint kind of echoes Jeet Kune Do- a bit of this, a bit of that, but only things that seem to work.

 

[RealAlHazred]

I just follow the central message of Buddhism: "Every man for himself!"

 

[payn]

I was a high-flying philosophy student in my undergrad days. Studied a little bit of most systems. My big takeaway was that most philosophers I studied got something right, but nobody had an airtight answer for everything.

So my own personal philosophical viewpoint kind of echoes Jeet Kune Do- a bit of this, a bit of that, but only things that seem to work.

 

[Scribe]

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Dear Client,

I'm not even supposed to talk to you directly anymore because you are obnoxious. You've been told the answer for weeks. I understand you do not like that answer. The answer will not change no matter how much you cry, because you do not have the money required to matter.

Welcome, to the real world. Take a look around, and realize what makes the world turn.

 

[Ryujin]

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Dear Client,

I'm not even supposed to talk to you directly anymore because you are obnoxious. You've been told the answer for weeks. I understand you do not like that answer. The answer will not change no matter how much you cry, because you do not have the money required to matter.

Welcome, to the real world. Take a look around, and realize what makes the world turn.

Wish that I could send emails like that one to clients that don't take my responses as the answer, because they don't like it, so they submit a new request to try and escalate. They usually end up coming right back to me because despite being in a group of generalists, we all tend to specialize to some degree.

Fortunately I have been referred to as A Master of the Politely Worded PFO Letter, so I have that to fall back on

 

[Scribe]

W@ish that I could send emails like that one to clients that don't take my responses as the answer, because they don't like it, so they submit a new request to try and escalate. They usually end up coming right back to me because despite being in a group of generalists, we all tend to specialize to some degree.

Fortunately I have been referred to as A Master of the Politely Worded PFO Letter, so I have that to fall back on

I'll be communicating the same intent 'you may go pound sand' later today, again. This will be round 4 or something.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Customer: Why was it done this way? That's wrong!
My Boss to my Coworker Who Did It: Please produce the email showing how you were supposed to do it.
My Coworker: We never got an email.
Customer: ... We didn't send an email, but we shouldn't have to!

I guess it's just magically supposed to happen the way you want. At least he didn't complain that we didn't have consumables; they never ordered any, trusting that we would have "enough spares." Sir, if nobody ever orders us spares, we aren't going to have any. What, you want us to knock on the other data centers in the building, bowl in hand, and ask for spare SFPs? "Please, sir, I want some more."

 

[trappedslider]

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

IMHO, Mr. Wells is probably the most important folk singer of his generation.