RE: Tuesday Humor: User-Hostile Software

Subject: RE: Tuesday Humor: User-Hostile Software
From: "Sarah Stegall" <sstegall -at- bivio -dot- net>
To: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 09:00:51 -0700


*snerk*

Gives new meaning to "user unfriendly"...

-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Kim-Eng [mailto:techwr -at- genek -dot- com]
Sent: Mon 6/7/2010 10:39 PM
To: Sarah Stegall; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Tuesday Humor: User-Hostile Software

I don't know about that. Some of those countries don't have very strong
consumer protection laws... :)

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Stegall" <sstegall -at- bivio -dot- net>

> I'm editing a document written outside of the US. You know, one of those
> countries where, according to Management "everyone speaks Engllish". I
> just found a popup screen in the GUI that says "Users has been
> successfully killed."
>
> Yeah, I know they mean the USER SESSION has been killed, but still...


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References:
Tuesday Humor: User-Hostile Software: From: Sarah Stegall
Re: Tuesday Humor: User-Hostile Software: From: Gene Kim-Eng

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