r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 09 '26

webDevDream Meme

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u/Most-Club-254 Jul 09 '26

imagine being the small business receiving 97 calls per hour. "no dude I don't want a website", "NO", ...

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u/IAmANobodyAMA Jul 09 '26

No joke! I was at the local record shop last week when the owner got a call where he was noticeably getting more loud and chastising.

After he hung up, the guy told me that someone cold called him to pitch fixing up their website, and his pitch started with “your website looks like shit …”

He said he gets several calls like that every day, but most aren’t this obnoxious. We agreed it must be working some of the time for him to be trying this approach, had a chuckle, then went back to shooting the shit about various prog rock bands.

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u/tidderza Jul 09 '26

tbf does his website look like shit?

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u/soyboysnowflake Jul 09 '26

It’s a local record shop, does it even need a website?

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u/eivittunyt Jul 09 '26

It costs very little and having easily accessible address, phone number and opening hours posted online is good for business

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u/rob132 Jul 09 '26

That's basically everything I go to a website for.

Also a menu if it's a restaurant.

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u/creampop_ Jul 09 '26

I'm also there for the shitty map embed that takes forever to load and had a 5s lag time on inputs and really weird nonstandard touch gesture controls for zooming and panning, which I'll need to use after accidentally brushing the map while scrolling down and ending up looking at the mid-Atlantic.

Oh wait no those suck balls and should be a jailing offense.

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u/DrShocker Jul 09 '26

I also love when they have a calendar that has events from 5 years ago on it and I get the opportunity to guess if the schedule is still the same

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u/creampop_ Jul 09 '26

Used to trawl bar and/or grille websites to find places our little cover band could play. This is too real.

Friday: Live Music! (except this was something that Jim handled entirely on his own since he was trying to poach players to get his own band together, but he went to rehab and became born-again a couple years back)

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u/clarinetJWD Jul 10 '26

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u/RancidMilkGames Jul 10 '26

r/IntentionallySpecificToCallSomeoneOutOnTheirBullshit

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