One of my coworkers is a genuinely lovely man. Devoted to his kids and blessed with a lyrical visual sense. But there's something very, very disturbing about him.
He either can't hear or doesn't comprehend.
In a meeting today, both my boss (sitting next to him) and I (seated across from him) were explaining something to him. Something he should have understood from a previous meeting, where it was originally introduced.
It's a very easy concept. We need to create something to go into a presentation deck on Monday -- something that represents a web page in content and appearance but will never BE a web page. It's just a suggestion, something to get the client thinking about adding a landing page to the project. Got that?
He said he doesn't know how to build web pages.
My boss and I repeated that this will never be a web page. It's just a representation, something static that will only appear on an 8 1/2" x 11" page in our deck. So the question is, if I get him copy by the end of day today, can he create something in time for Monday's meeting?
He repeated that he doesn't know how to build web pages.
After the third explanation, he got it.
I'm alternately frustrated and freaked out by this. Is it his hearing? Or worse, is it his comprehension?
Whatever it is, it's sad.
I feel like I should do something about this, but it's almost 3:30 on Friday and it's been kind of a rough week and I just want to get my work done and go home.
Maybe he just wasn't getting it because he was having a "blonde" day....where nothing makes much sense.
ReplyDeleteOr, since he's a visual person...he understands things that are written down, that he can see. I'm like that, when it comes to verbal discussions, I tend to drift off and miss elements. When I see and read it sticks in my mind.
Maybe if you called it a "mock-up" instead? That's how we always referred to something like that. *shrug*
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