> 'What was the error message?' I ask, and he shrugs his shoulders. I follow him to the IT suite. I watch him type in his user-name and password. A message box

> 'What was the error message?' I ask, and he shrugs his shoulders. I follow him to the IT suite. I watch him type in his user-name and password. A message box opens up, but the kid clicks OK so quickly that I don't have time to read the message. He repeats this process three times Ugh, my daughter does this, and it's infuriating. How are you supposed to make any progress if you don't read what's wrong with it? I think as programmers, we should recognize that our programs which are already inundating users with unnecessary pop-ups and notifications, are training them to just dismiss every message from the computer. Any time your PM says "I know, we need to tell the user this, so pop up a message..." don't do it!