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>>>>>Well, the solution would be quite easy in restructuring the menu if the customer wasn't such a complicated one.
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>>>>The saying that "the customer is always right" isn't always true, I have had my share of difficult ones myself.
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>>>Depends on your definition of "Right." My version says that that
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>>>Right = Makes the final decision
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>>>and the customer is that person.
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>>>If my customer (I've always worked in a corporate environment so my customer is my supervisor) says
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>>>"I want every letter in the menu option to be a different color and every third letter should be underlined"
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>>>I will tell hir (him or her - I hate the use of them/they/etc and it's "politically incorrect" to use him as general term the way we did for the past 100 years or so)
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>>>"It's ugly, violates our standard interface, and a terrible idea. Our user's will get migrane headaches if we implement that"
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>>>When the customer say, "But that's what I want" then I do it.
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>>The point of the phrase is to make the customer feel that they are "good little children". It does not mean you build a bridge out of swiss cheese because they have the funds to pay for it.
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>If .......
>the customer wants a bridge out of swiss cheese
>I explain the problems inherent with the bridge
>the customer still wants the bridge
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>then
>while you may be in a position to lose the business but I am not so ..........
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>I build the bridge
A bridge is a really bad analogy here, since building a bridge out of swiss cheese (or whatever inadequate materials) is life-threatening and illegal. I imagine that if a client asked you to build an application that involved cooking the books in some way, you would turn down that work. There are clients I would turn away because of the nature of their business. (Easy example: I wouldn't work for a cigarette or gun manufacturer.)
Tamar
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