Oh yes, questions
However many times you rephrase a question, if it remains essentially the same question, it will elicit essentially the same answer. I'm sorry if it wasn't the answer you wanted to hear, but that's because of this thing called "reality".

I've never known a man do this.
(lolwhites, Mon 28 Dec 2009, 18:32, 1 reply)

You would have done
... if you'd ever worked in Saudi Arabia. These people have a somewhat unrealistic idea of how long it takes to gather information, engineer a solution, get a replacement part to site and get it all installed. They believe that asking for progress every few seconds will help you speed things along. If they don't like the answer, they believe that asking the same question over and over will magically change the answer.

All this along with my favourite, "You have to do it! I've already told my boss you will!"

*sigh*
(daizi last tried to escape on, Mon 28 Dec 2009, 18:57, closed)

I.T. is like this too
"How long will it take?"
"I don't know."
"Well roughly?"
"I DON'T KNOW."
"Say, less than two weeks?"
"I STILL DON'T FUCKING KNOW!"

"I already said they could have it in a week."
"You're going to look a bit of a twat then, aren't you?"
( finnbar has officially retired, Mon 28 Dec 2009, 20:59, closed)

They're pre-neantertaal so they don't count.
Luckily the emirates, as a whole, are suffering right now -- so hopefully the stone-age morons will just die out slowly.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 18:50, closed)