{"id":2782,"date":"2007-04-14T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/14\/dealing-with-idiots\/"},"modified":"2007-04-14T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T21:09:00","slug":"dealing-with-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/14\/dealing-with-idiots\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody who works in a service industry will tell you that clients and users are generally the dumbest people on the face of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>I love my job, but there is one aspect I hate having to deal with and that&apos;s having to answer support emails. Generally, they boil down to &#8220;I have a problem and I&apos;m too lazy to try and fix it &#8211; do it for me because it&apos;s your job&#8221;. Well, you know what? Dealing with your stupidity is not my job. <\/p>\n<p>I don&apos;t mind helping you and telling you what you need to do to get the problem solved, but I&apos;m not going to spend hours at a go to do your job for you. I have my own problems to solve for the job I&apos;m being paid to do.<\/p>\n<p>Also, to those who send emails telling me &#8220;I need this feature for the hugely important project I&apos;m working on (that only you and your labmates will be using) and I need it now! Now! NOW!!!!!! So do it!&#8221;. Please send those emails to the request tracker. Or better yet, stick them up your ass.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you,<br \/>\nThe Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody who works in a service industry will tell you that clients and users are generally the dumbest people on the face of the planet. I love my job, but there is one aspect I hate having to deal with and that&apos;s having to answer support emails. Generally, they boil down to &#8220;I have a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/14\/dealing-with-idiots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Dealing with idiots&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,40],"class_list":["post-2782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dealing-with-idiots","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-IS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}