CLIENT: “… Also, on this page when you click on a link, it breaks the web”
ME: “Sorry, which part does it break?”
CLIENT: “It breaks the WHOLE WEB!”
ME: “Do you mean it breaks that page, or the whole website shows an error page?”
CLIENT: “No, I click on the link and now the Internet is not working”
ME: “What, all of the Internet?”
CLIENT: “Yes.”
Please note, this entire conversation took place over the internet.
via: [clientsfromhell]
Reminds me of the episode of the IT Crowd where Jen was given the entire internet in a box.
That was great.
Of course, when Win 95 was first released, the IE icon was labelled “The Internet” – cue many tales of users moaning that The Internet wasn’t working / was broken and many apocryphal tales of techs responding “It’s working fine from here!” – mixed in among tales of cup holders, foot pedals, base units eating disks, techs receiving (photo)copies of disks and the infamous case of the screen which mysteriously went black during a power cut…