All right then. Redesign. I’m reasonably happy with it for now. It still needs some tweaking, I’m sure, but that will have to wait. At least I didn’t accidentally delete my weblog when I rewrote the template. That would not have been good. Any thoughts? Like it, hate it, not especially impressed one way or another?
Day: September 17, 2002
To the gentlemen on the phone with my boss right now: I wasn’t trying to be rude when I asked you to repeat your name a second time. I honestly could not hear you, either because the telephone connection was poor or because you quickly raced through the unfamiliar words. My boss had to ask you to do the same when I handed him the phone. As I explained to you, I was perfectly happy to put you through once I could tell him who was calling. I just did not want to hand the phone over to my boss with nothing but a shrug and an “I don’t know” or “your guess is as good as mine”. I apologized for asking you to repeat your name, politely explained my reasons for doing so, and assured you that my boss was in fact available. I understand that my request may have been more than a little annoying, but threatening to hang up and discard the proposal you were calling to discuss really wasn’t necessary. It was, in fact, more than a little rude and certainly no way to conduct business.