@blakeyrat said:
The fact that you had to actually measure this and write a report for something so fucking obvious actually tells us a lot about your communication skills. You couldn't have made that argument heuristically?
While we've all already learned this already, this says more about your communication skills than it does his. Obviously, any success you've ever had communicating anything unexpected to non-technical management has been pure luck.
We're talking about people who think that computers just do things. Moving the cursor around? That's free, right?
Most of the companies where I've worked have upper managment types who have forgotten that Windows takes any time to boot, because they have an administrative assistant that powers their computer on in the morning before they get to work. That assistant opens Excel, Word, Outlook, and any other program they typically need during the day, so they've forgotten that those programs take time to load, also. Also, they have a quad core, dual processor computer for their desktop, despite the fact they don't really run any CPU-intensive applications (besides Windows itself), so they're really protected from seeing any computer delays at all. So, yeah, they're going to want to see hard numbers.
@blakeyrat said:
So while you might have 47.5 decades of experience, you sure as fuck aren't very good at talking to trolls on forums, and isn't that really the skill that matters?
Actually, he's as good at that as you are. He just hasn't done it as much. Probably because he actually sometimes has worthwhile things to do.