Confessions of a Fugitive Mind

January 13, 2006

Web Savvy

I got a phone call today from someone who wanted to verify the e-mail adress Web updates should be sent to. So I recited the standard spiel about how questions and large projects should go to webmaster and day-to-day updates should go to webwork and be instantly added to our queue. It was all normal until...

CALLER: So, how do you spell that address?
ME: Ummm, W-E-B-W-O-R-K-
CALLER: at... W-P-I slash E-D-U?
ME: Uh, yeah. W-P-I
dot E-D-U
CALLER: OK, thanks.

I know it's not nice to laugh at people who are less knowledgable, but I could barely contain myself. The caller sounded technically literate at the start of the call and by the end was grasping at straws.

Posted by criminal at January 13, 2006 11:33 AM

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