i was working on a cd-rom for a telecom company at the employer i currently work for. i was on a conference call with the group heading up development on the client side.
client: "so, what do you do this in?"
me: "director and some vb"
client: "and why can't we change the navigation by tomarrow...?"
me: "because it would take at least a week to iron out the bugs and make sure everything works and the links remained intact. i explained to you before that this project has 14 sub sections and that a navigation change would have to ripple through all 14."
client: "sounds like a problem with director. whay are you using it again?"
me: "because we can customize it to the project."
client: "WELL, all I KNOW is that i programmed cobal and that this whole DVD could be built in coldfusion. Why are you messing around with director when coldfusion can do it in half the time."
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same client, different day-
client: "thanks for working 40 hours over 2 days to meet the deadline. sorry we through all these changes at you."
me: "thats ok. its my job"
client: "can we have a soundtrack? something jazzy or techno, maybe ambient..."
me: "no. it would take to long and we'd miss the deadline..."
client: "no no, nothing custom. just find a cd and take a track or 2 off of that."
me: "thats copyrighted material..."
client: "once again i don't understand- if its so hard to add music why aren't you using coldfusion."
i swear to christ this is truth. i wanted to kill myself.