Oh yes, they exist [LWN.net]

Oh yes, they exist

Posted Oct 22, 2009 22:16 UTC (Thu) by felixfix (subscriber, #242)
In reply to: A Tokyo moment by epa
Parent article: A Tokyo moment

I had a runin with one once. I had been fighting a really annoying pagination bug in Word, whereby it would print the past page as "33 of 32" if you made even the slightest change, and it would take plenty of screwing around with print preview etc to get it back to sanity.

This idiot interrupted me just when I was about to start screaming and told me there were no bugs in Microsoft products, that it was all operator error. He was dead serious about this as he always had been about all Microsoft products. He would have invited Bill Gates to be his best man if he were getting married. And no, it was not a joke. He never once showed the slightest sense of humor about anything, ever. I disinvited him from my cubicle and went back to my task and eventually got it working again.

Yes, those people do indeed exist.

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Oh yes, they exist

Posted Oct 23, 2009 3:26 UTC (Fri) by gus3 (guest, #61103) [Link]

This person needed a serious dressing-down from his higher-ups.

Of course, the easiest come-back is, "If Windows has no bugs, why does it need Patch Tuesdays?"

Oh yes, they exist

Posted Oct 23, 2009 8:42 UTC (Fri) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]

I've never felt it worth my time to work out the magic voodoo to get page numbers in Word. I just write them on by hand afterwards.

Oh yes, they exist

Posted Nov 6, 2009 0:38 UTC (Fri) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]

If I want to do anything more complicated than the SIMPLEST word processing, I use WordPerfect.

Apart from the MICROSOFT bugs (of which it contains too many :-(, it works PERFECTly.

Cheers,
Wol