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I may be a wanker but...
Sunday June 25, 2006
Unusually for me this is not straight from the hip, I have thought long and hard about making this post and I am still angry a few days on. Though, this is a post made after a few glasses of wine so who knows, it may only be you RSS users who get to see this.
Anyway, I went to a conference here in the United States and I saw a person who is VERY well known in the web standards world. I had thought to go up and say hello, even though I am probably not known from Adam, but I held off and only really because I didn’t think I had much to say other than… errr hello. I am glad I didn’t bother to make the effort.
On the penultimate night of the conference people were getting up to speak about their products (no easy task, not something I could do without wetting my pants) and I watched in disbelief as this well known person heckled a speaker (I have since been told he heckled more than one). A well known icon appeared on the speaker’s presentation slides and said well known person screamed out: OH LOOK it’s such and such product!, something he himself had produced a while back, though its long been abandoned for better products. Basically said well known person behaved like a prick, truly an arrogant fuck, and I was very tempted to stand up and ask him to shut the fuck up; I was very glad I had not introduced myself and have no intentions of making any effort in the future.
I held back on confronting him because I was scared; scared of the consequences, scared of what I might have to endure (don’t have the time to endure) if I dared question his behaviour.
If my voice was not so small, if I had three, four times the readership I would name a name but I admit to being scared as to what might happen.
I discussed this with someone offline before I made this post and we both agreed: no matter who the fuck you think you are there is no need for the child-like behaviour I saw that day.
