Five days after being put on a new project I'm tasked with showing a demo of the front-end to some senior execs I've never heard of before or even knew their positions had existed in our company (even though I've been here for 7 months now). Expecting that what they want to see is just a mock-up of what things would look like and work (surely they didn't expect a demo of the actual app 5 days after I started?) I have to hastily throw together some mock ups in powerpoint and head over to the largest board room in our company.
We dress casually here. I'm in dark jeans with a striped shirt. My boss is similarly dressed - brown pants and a white shirt. These three guys are wearing full suits including the ties. I start the presentation and after a quick intro start going through the flow of how the application would operate. That is to say, I pretend that I "click" on a button, change the slide, and show on the next slide what happens.
After a few slides of this, one of the execs interrupts me and tells me to back up and click on some button that I did not yet demonstrate. So I start scrolling through the slides to where the function of this button is explained and this guy starts waving his hands and saying "Woah woah woah, stop doing that."
I stop.
"Now just back up to where we were before."
I scroll back through the slides to the point where he interrupted me.
"Ok, good, now go back."
I go back a few slides.
"Right, now, click that button!"
"Uh... sir, this is powerpoint, I have a slide further that---"
"I KNOW what powerpoint is! Do you think I'm an IDIOT??!"
"Sorry, no, I just ---"
"JUST CLICK THAT BUTTON AND SHOW ME WHAT IT DOES!"
I stare blankly at him with my mouth still open.
He mumbles something more about idiots, gets up, comes over to my laptop, pushes me away, and starts clicking on the picture of the button.
Then he stares at the screen preplexed, and starts clicking on pictures of other buttons. Then he gets frustrated and starts banging on the mouse and growling. Then he storms out, the others leave with him.
Later on I found out from my boss that the project would likely be cancelled because that guy wasn't impressed.
TRWTF: I'm still not exactly sure who these guys are and neither does my boss.