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...That guy is just an asshole. Not funny at all. He should just have declined instead of screwing around and wasting everybody's time.

philh 12y ago
I found it a little funny, but not funny enough to justify being that level of asshole.
- eigenvector 12y ago
  It's satire. He didn't actually write this and there is no missing cat.
  - jallmann 12y ago
    Not so sure about that [1]: > Q: Are your articles (like Missing Missy), real emails? > A: The email articles are verbatim ... Even if his pieces are meant to be satire, IMO it's not particularly good satire. To each his own, I guess. [1] http://live.washingtonpost.com/david-thorne-internet-is-a-playground.html http://live.washingtonpost.com/david-thorne-internet-is-a-pl...
    - philh 12y ago
      I'm curious why this was downvoted?
      - eigenvector 12y ago
        Not sure, but that interview is satirical too...
        jallmann 12y ago
        I don't think so -- what exactly is satirical about that interview? (Not that I really care to know; this is getting way off-topic.)
gknoy 12y ago
It's possible that he didn't actually do that, and was only blogging the fantasy ("Man, I'd love to troll her with increasingly stupid cat posters until she leaves me alone ..."), but it's also possible that we see the response after being frequently asked to do Free Work as a "favor" for coworkers who either won't accept "No" or don't understand that it's inappropriate to depand such work. If we take this at face value, she could have asked more nicely, and he could also have followed the "F you, pay me" principle, and just quoted her a figure. Had he said, "I'd be happy to make you a poster for your cat. I will be able to do it with an hour's work, for which I will bill you $80", he would not have wasted her time, and she could have made something herself in her word processor. (Or, she'd have said, "Awesome, here's eighty bucks".)
Doctor_Fegg 12y ago
Hate to break it to you, but 27b/6 is actually fiction.

philh 12y ago

I found it a little funny, but not funny enough to justify being that level of asshole.

eigenvector 12y ago
It's satire. He didn't actually write this and there is no missing cat.
- jallmann 12y ago
  Not so sure about that [1]: > Q: Are your articles (like Missing Missy), real emails? > A: The email articles are verbatim ... Even if his pieces are meant to be satire, IMO it's not particularly good satire. To each his own, I guess. [1] http://live.washingtonpost.com/david-thorne-internet-is-a-playground.html http://live.washingtonpost.com/david-thorne-internet-is-a-pl...
  - philh 12y ago
    I'm curious why this was downvoted?
    - eigenvector 12y ago
      Not sure, but that interview is satirical too...
      - jallmann 12y ago
        I don't think so -- what exactly is satirical about that interview? (Not that I really care to know; this is getting way off-topic.)

gknoy 12y ago

It's possible that he didn't actually do that, and was only blogging the fantasy ("Man, I'd love to troll her with increasingly stupid cat posters until she leaves me alone ..."), but it's also possible that we see the response after being frequently asked to do Free Work as a "favor" for coworkers who either won't accept "No" or don't understand that it's inappropriate to depand such work. If we take this at face value, she could have asked more nicely, and he could also have followed the "F you, pay me" principle, and just quoted her a figure. Had he said, "I'd be happy to make you a poster for your cat. I will be able to do it with an hour's work, for which I will bill you $80", he would not have wasted her time, and she could have made something herself in her word processor. (Or, she'd have said, "Awesome, here's eighty bucks".)

Doctor_Fegg 12y ago

Hate to break it to you, but 27b/6 is actually fiction.