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Today's Best-of-the-Sidebar was originally posted by "old gutsie" ...
A couple years back, I was tasked with making a few changes to a client’s existing website. Most of the changes they wanted were cosmetic – move a few things here, change some text there – but some involved making minor enhancements to the application.
Fortunately, the client actually did their due diligence and “a lot of cutting and pasting,” created a mock-up of what they wanted. I asked them to send it over and, a few minutes later, a few dozen pages spilled out of the fax machine. It didn’t make a whole lot of sense why they saw the need to print and then fax it, but I figured they just lost my email address or something.
After the reviewing their screenshots, I called them up to discuss the changes and offer a few additional suggestions. The client agreed and promised that they’d fax over the changes right away. Before hanging up, I asked if they’d be able to simple email the document instead of printing and faxing it.
“We can’t,” the client replied, “we’re cutting and pasting.”
Even more confused, I asked why cutting and pasting some text inside a word document would prevent them from emailing it to me. As it turned out, the client had a pretty good reason.
Their version of “cut and paste” involved a screen print from a browser, scissors, and a bottle of glue.
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My manager back when I first started out used to take our status reports and do the same thing, then give it to the secretary to type up. He would print them all out, cut out the parts he wanted in his roll-up report. Write down some edits and give it to the secretary. (back when we actually called them secretaries).
Same company whose paper based version control required me to print 600 pages of source code to check-in. Ahh, the old days (1993) |
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