Can They Possibly be Serious?

Sometimes you just think to yourself this has to be a joke or why would someone ever ask that?  Don’t people try to figure things out for themselves?  Some things just shouldn’t be that hard to figure out in the first place.  So what has inspired me to write about stupid questions?  It happened at work and the question came in the form of an email, actually two separate emails from separate people with the same request.

Now, the emails were not written to me so unfortunately I couldn’t respond to them but one of my coworkers thought they should show me two of the emails they received.  I asked what they wrote back and they just said that they didn’t respond.  I tried to convince them of what to write giving them a few quick ideas but I was unsuccessful.

So for Santa Clause photos you can choose to have the photo sent to you in an email.  That’s nice because you have the photo to do whatever you want with.  They all are sent in a batch at the end of the day with nothing done to them so you get the file however it is saved in the computer. So here are the two email responses we received a few days ago.

First, “Would it be possible for you to send the photo so we don’t have to see the picture sideways?  I don’t know of a way to change it.  Please advise.” and second “THE PHOTO THAT?I PAID FOR OF MY KIDS WITH SANTA CLAUSE IS SIDEWAYS. COULD YOU PLEASE RESEND IT IN THE CORRECT POSITION? THAK YOU.”  Copied and pasted straight from the emails caps and all.

Here are the responses I tried to convince my coworker to send back.

Dear xxxxx,

Unfortunately do to the amount of time it would take us to open your photo and press the rotate button we will not be able to comply with your request.  Here are some possible solutions to your problem.

• You could always turn your computer monitor on its side whenever you would like to look at the photo or you could also lay on your side yourself when viewing your photo.
• You could always print the photo out in landscape orientation, manually turn it sideways and rescan the photo in the portrait position giving you a file in the orientation you would prefer.

• If the child in the photo is in kindergarten or older just have them fix it.

If none of these solutions will work for you you could always try double clicking the file on your computer and when it opens in your default photo viewing software click the rotate button like we would do (if you rotate it in the wrong direction don’t worry you can always press the button two more times.)

Thank You,

xxxxxxxxxx

Sorry about the photos being sideways.  They were sent to me wrong or something.  Just turn your monitor sideways or something to look at them.

So there you have it.  Maybe it isn’t as funny or surprising to you that someone who has email, knows how to check it and actually requests to have photos sent to it, doesn’t know how to do something as simple as rotating a photo or can’t figure out a way to do it.  There’s no way in my mind that I could even believe they even tried before asking someone else to do it for them.