Did you ever see this cartoon about how various parts of a company interpreted a request for a tire swing?
Sorry guys.
Perhaps the 7 Red Lines guy would have better luck designing a bigger spoon.
lol, it’s OK, I’m retired, so I could let it wash over me.
I watched a few more of them, in fact. One thing they may not have 100% captured is the extent to which people begin to resent you when you tell them something is impossible. They really seem to think you’re trying to be a dick and personally make them look bad.
Not really. They had a really strong prejudice that IT people don’t understand business priorities and can’t possibly comprehend reality.
So stupid really - I wasn’t born in IT - I didn’t always work in IT - part of the reason they employed me in the first place was that I had relevant hands-on experience in their industry.
I have had that exact same request. Someone shot footage in portrait mode and wanted me to use it in landscape 16:9. But don’t put bars or overlays on the sides. And don’t zoom in to crop it. Just take this footage I shot of the Empire State Building on my phone in portrait mode and make it fit a widescreen image.
I used to work at a comic book/game store and when we didn’t have something on the retail floor customers would sometimes ask, “Do you have any in the back?” There’s nothing wrong with that question, but a subset of those customers would get a bit cheeky when I invariably answered no. “How do you know you don’t have any back there if you haven’t looked?” And of course I knew for two reasons: We don’t store stock in the back we keep it on the retail store so we can move the product. We don’t have room to store a lot back there and I would have noticed if we had stock waiting to be placed on the floor.