I'm on the phone with a client and he hasn't said anything meaningful in...and I glance at the phone and the call has been going for 38 minutes and it was just to set up a fucking site visit and now he's repeating himself, repeating himself and why won't you DIE DIE DIE
"Dan, I gotta run. Call on the other line."
AND HE'S STILL TALKING DIE DIE DIE
"Dan, as soon as I have a report ready, I'll email you."
Monday, July 26, 2010
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Engineering -- the listening cure.
DAN THE THE THE
And then he wonders why I'm always "out" when he calls.
There's a story like this in The Arabian Nights about a barber. It is entertaining to read it to someone, as it includes more babble than strictly necessary in such a story, but much more entertaining to have someone else read it to someone. Out of earshot.
There's a story like this in The Arabian Nights about a barber.
Later turned into a novel called "You Know Me, Mohammad."
do you bill him for the time?
Not directly, but there is some rounding of hours going on.
Dan! Get me some dan dan noodles!
Danny, I'd love to talk more but my ears are bleeding"
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