At work today there we had an educational event to teach our customers about the brand new sparkling new more money new software that Viking's putting out. (Incidentally, if you're looking for embroidery software, this is actually pretty damn cool.)
What wasn't cool was our presenter's personality.
In the first hour he said things like, "Now, I know all you ladies go shopping all over the place..." or "You ladies have asked for this, although you didn't need it..." or "I could smack teachers who don't talk about pictograms..."
Okay, Bozo, let's take this outside. I am one of those teachers and if he smacked me, after I very sweetly got him a drink of water before he began, I'd shove him so he'd fall on his fat ass and then I'd hiss at him, "That was not cool." I'd say it so he'd know I'd be contacting everyone I could think of to make his work none-too-pleasant for quite sometime.
Am I over-reacting? You bet your boots I am! BUT! Here's one other little note. In the new software you can design pictograms. It would be a fancy way to do a pictogram that I'm supposed to teach.
A woman (should I say lady?) asked, "Can you show us how you'd do a pictogram in this software?"
Ha! He'd never done one! Loser! I'll smack him!
These kinds of things always bother me, but I doubt I'd begin to like this man whatever he did. He's a punk.
I do believe that I'm not intended to work with groups larger than ten. I get angry when they talk while the speaker is speaking. Especially when the speaker is me.
We all know that asking people to stop talking is a losing battle. I keep fighting it. I want to win!
Now hush and pay attention, children. Your computer is whispering to you, "Take a break...take a break...take a break."
Posted by dotty at July 15, 2004 10:32 PM