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Subject:Re: A technique to get on development's good side From:Lori Olcott <lori_olcott -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sun, 15 May 2005 19:56:29 -0700 (PDT)
Seen this first hand. At one office, the tech crew used a
variant of the L on the forehead sign for "Loser". They
made a U for "User" whenever they got a PEBKAC error
report. Not that I can totally blame them. Some of the
things they had to deal with were real winners.
> Frequently the sentiment is uttered not so much
> along the lines of "screw the user" but of "users are
> dumb."
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