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Is it just me, or did was the annoying sales guy completely right about the technology being possible, able to satisfy the client, and successful in closing a p

by GavinB 17y ago

Is it just me, or did was the annoying sales guy completely right about the technology being possible, able to satisfy the client, and successful in closing a profitable deal for the company? What weird dailywtf parallel universe is this?

wheaties 17y ago
The WTF is the fact that a single employee would cost a company several tens of thousands of dollars plus several weeks of development time all because that employee didn't want to remember a password.
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- orblivion 17y ago
  Well, it was probably an important employee.
- run4yourlives 17y ago
  Actually, the WTF is that nobody bothered to mention (or ask) that only a single employee used the system.
  - gridspy 17y ago
    The salesperson did say that there was only a single client... “But we don’t need to change it for everyone,” Craig jumped in, “just one client. Surely, you can do that!”
    - kgermino 17y ago
      He would have meant one client as in one company, not one user.
      - chops 17y ago
        Perhaps the salesperson meant "one client machine" and the programmer assumed that, given the context, meant "one client company." Client can be a rather ambiguous term.
        sjs 17y ago
        You're giving the sales guy far too much credit.
brown9-2 17y ago
There really isn't anything in this story that would allow us to comment on the profitability or lack thereof
pavel_lishin 17y ago
Even a broken clock is wrong twice a day, throw enough darts and you'll hit a bullseye, at least one woman in this bar has gotta be drunk enough, etc. Insert your own folksy analogy here.
blasdel 17y ago
The one where DailyWtf submissions are always boiled down and reconstituted into unrecognizable just-so parables that read like the editors of Chicken Soup for the Soul tried to write Malcolm Gladwell articles for InfoWorld.
- matrix 17y ago
  I wish I could upvote this 10 times. I stopped reading the dailyWTF a long, long time ago because: a) the stories are embellished to the point of being pure fiction, and b) the writer's work is so long-winded that it's just painful to read. I suspect that the author thinks he's being funny.

by GavinB 17y ago

wheaties 17y ago

The WTF is the fact that a single employee would cost a company several tens of thousands of dollars plus several weeks of development time all because that employee didn't want to remember a password.

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orblivion 17y ago
Well, it was probably an important employee.
run4yourlives 17y ago
Actually, the WTF is that nobody bothered to mention (or ask) that only a single employee used the system.
- gridspy 17y ago
  The salesperson did say that there was only a single client... “But we don’t need to change it for everyone,” Craig jumped in, “just one client. Surely, you can do that!”
  - kgermino 17y ago
    He would have meant one client as in one company, not one user.
    - chops 17y ago
      Perhaps the salesperson meant "one client machine" and the programmer assumed that, given the context, meant "one client company." Client can be a rather ambiguous term.
      - sjs 17y ago
        You're giving the sales guy far too much credit.

brown9-2 17y ago

There really isn't anything in this story that would allow us to comment on the profitability or lack thereof

pavel_lishin 17y ago

Even a broken clock is wrong twice a day, throw enough darts and you'll hit a bullseye, at least one woman in this bar has gotta be drunk enough, etc. Insert your own folksy analogy here.

blasdel 17y ago

The one where DailyWtf submissions are always boiled down and reconstituted into unrecognizable just-so parables that read like the editors of Chicken Soup for the Soul tried to write Malcolm Gladwell articles for InfoWorld.

matrix 17y ago
I wish I could upvote this 10 times. I stopped reading the dailyWTF a long, long time ago because: a) the stories are embellished to the point of being pure fiction, and b) the writer's work is so long-winded that it's just painful to read. I suspect that the author thinks he's being funny.