I just had a client call and get Big Mad with me because he got An Email.

"I just got some email from “you all” saying something about my delivery wasn’t done, and this is bullshit because I told you all that I wasn’t ready for [equipment] delivery yet so nobody was there and it’s saying I have 46 hours or else you’ll cancel my delivery or some shit and this is fucked up and I’m not standing for it you all keep screwing everything up and if you can’t do something about this right now I want my money back and this is unacceptable and – "

You want to know what the email in question was?

It was this:

This indefatigable moron sent someone else a message from his own personal email account, got the address wrong and received this bounceback, and failed to understand this so hard that immediately concluded that this must have something to do with “us” and his equipment delivery so he should instantly pick up the telephone and screech.

Isn’t it nice to be appreciated in the capacity that idiots assume that every single little thing that goes wrong in their lives must somehow be your fault?

I also partially blame Google for putting a stupid little icon of a truck on these things, obviously completely failing to account for the fact that some large percentage of idiots A) won’t actually read the words, and B) can’t comprehend abstract concepts.

If you try to design something to be foolproof, they’ll just go on and invent a better fool.

  • @WHARRGARBL
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    714 days ago

    When I worked at Apple, we had Mac users demanding that we;

    Give them their email passwords, because they get mail on the Mac

    Fix their internet, because it’s connected to the Mac

    Fix their printers, because it’s connected to the Mac

    Erase other people’s Facebook posts, because they appear on the Mac

    If you could see on the Mac that you had a life problem, Apple was responsible.