Why do people wait till it's too late to tell you important stuff?

[Locut0s]

This is just an example from work but it aplies to lots of other areas too. A lot of the time people will wait till it's either too late or till after you have past some critical mark to tell you some important info that you should have had earlier. Things like ordering a SATA hard drive, not just saying I need a HD but giving me the model they had picked out, then waiting till after payment to add "oh btw this will work with IDE right"? :\

I'm sure people who do programming and or web site design could probably relate. I'm sure you've had customers add at the very end "oh btw I need the program/site to be able to do X" where X requires a major redesign!

 

[Mike Gayner]

I thought this thread would be death themed. I am dissapoint.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

It's because people don't really think about what they need. They deal with it minimally so they can move on to what they perceive as more important.Something occurs to them, they mention it and forget it.

Reality strikes when you hand them a HD or something and THEN all the consequences which follow from implementing the solution come to the front of their brain. That's when they hit you with junk.

 

[Locut0s]

I thought this thread would be death themed. I am dissapoint.

Yeah my victims often wait till the guillotine blade has been release before adding "wait I... fleshahhggg..."

 

[theflyingpig]

Some people are just stupid.

 

[Locut0s]

Some people are just stupid.

Well it's just a pet peeve. Most of it is what Hayabusa said, a lot are stupid as well lol.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Like when my lecturer waited until the day my ASP.NET assignment was due before telling me it needs to compile and run in .NET 3.5 and VS2008. Was built in VS2010 on .NET4.0 and required quite a few changes. Rage.

 

[Barfo]

Hey Locut0s, I'm pregnant...and it's yours :$