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    Kill me now

    Just came back from a meeting with one of my clients.

    Client: Regarding the lessons learnt I asked you to provide for the last project.

    Me: Yes, I sent it to you, with all the information you requested.

    Client: I have to send it to the business owners, it's just text. Could you put it in PowerPoint and make it a bit more colourful and maybe a few charts and graphics.

    Its lessons learnt FFS, not the latest edition of the Beano.
    Fiscal nomad it's legal.

    #2
    Traffic light BMPs are you friends.
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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      #3
      Ooh. Make sure you include some pictures of a little stick man at the computer. Perhaps all round the edge of the powerpoint slide, as a border.

      Stick a massive pie chart in the bottom centre, and put some wording underneath in very small itallic: it should be noted that the data reflected above is meaningless
      Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
      +5 Xeno Cool Points

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        #4
        Originally posted by vetran View Post
        Traffic light BMPs are you friends.
        Nah, it's all about infographics these days, innit...
        "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
        - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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          #5
          And don't forget to use WordArt to add professional impact to your presentation!!!

          'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!

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            #6
            I think some companies have been Bobed so much, that they think the PowerPoint slides with no real information is the correct way to do things.
            Fiscal nomad it's legal.

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              #7
              Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
              And don't forget to use WordArt to add professional impact to your presentation!!!

              And its powerpoint so you could animate every character of text on the slide starting from a different edge.

              Animate.css | Just-add-water CSS Animations has some "great" examples
              merely at clientco for the entertainment

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                #8
                Originally posted by alreadypacked View Post
                Its lessons learnt FFS, not the latest edition of the Beano.
                No you are educating a bunch of people that spent most of the year calling the wrong shots. If they had the attention span to read your plain txt they would not need you to tell them what they did wrong ...

                There is a well paid art to telling senior managers simple things in a way that does not make them feel dumb.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by alreadypacked View Post
                  I think some companies have been Bobed so much, that they think the PowerPoint slides with no real information is the correct way to do things.
                  no content = nothing to worry about = perfect meeting.

                  Out of sight, out of mind
                  merely at clientco for the entertainment

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                    #10
                    Kill me now

                    Originally posted by alreadypacked View Post
                    Just came back from a meeting with one of my clients.

                    Client: Regarding the lessons learnt I asked you to provide for the last project.

                    Me: Yes, I sent it to you, with all the information you requested.

                    Client: I have to send it to the business owners, it's just text. Could you put it in PowerPoint and make it a bit more colourful and maybe a few charts and graphics.

                    Its lessons learnt FFS, not the latest edition of the Beano.
                    [mod snip - NSFW] (Especially while eating lunch (Paddy)).

                    Last edited by Paddy; 19 September 2013, 13:01.
                    "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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