Corporate Silliness

or why I laugh at our web "maintainer"

[danmccarthy]

A year or so ago, the small organization I work for decided to have the President's secretary maintain our website. They gave him a copy of Dreamweaver, and handed over our recently redesigned(outsourced, unfortunately) website to him. My role in the organization is mostly not web-related, but everyone knows I moonlight as a web designer, and have done a fair amount of surveys, other forms, and design for our website in the past. I was obviously a little miffed that I got passed over for the website maintenance job, but that's not the point of this post.

Now I get to laugh (to myself) when he screws up the site or asks me things like "what's CSS?", after having lied and told me he knew all about web design when we first talked about him maintaining the website.

Regardless, here's the point. The other day, I sent him a copy of the printed version of a survey I created that will exist both on our website and in printed form. The printed survey has a link on it, with a URL like this:

[example.com...]

He immediately tells me (rudely, like he thinks I'm dumb) that "our website doesn't work like that, you need to change the link in the printed version". I immediately upload the page into the newly created "mysurvey" folder on our server, and email him the link above. He never replied.

I know I'm being immature, but it's just so fun...

[SEOMike]

It is a lot of fun watching someone choke on their own words. I've seen it w/ admins more than once. "Oh yeah... I know how to admin a windows based webserver." Then he asked me "What's IIS?" I said "Good Luck" and laughed as I walked away. Needless to say, that person had the responsibility of server maint. yanked shortly after he got it, and it fell back on me... Oh well.

[balam]

> It is a lot of fun watching someone choke on their own words.

Indeed. When confronted with situations like this, I get the most fun by playing as dumb as the questioner is. I can't remember a decently funny story, but the scenario would play out as...

"What's IIS?"

"Hahaha, that's funny! You're such a joker!" - then walk away.

[snowman]

Tried the link, only got:

Not Found
The requested URL /mysurvey/ was not found on this server.

Apache/1.3.27 Server at www.example.com Port 80

That IS pretty funny!

[danmccarthy]

Snowman, that link was just to show the type of URL I was talking about, links to personal websites aren't allowed on webmasterworld.

[pmkpmk]

Hmmm, example.com has a PR7. They should start making money of it :-))

mycompany.com is only PR6, as well as company.com (or its redirect).