Time: Mon Oct 28 16:20:18 1996
To: Jim McCall
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: frustration
Cc: 
Bcc: 

Dear Jim,

I don't know if you will get
this message or not, and that
is part of the problem.

I did everything I could to
urge you to install and learn
electronic mail, several weeks,
if not months, ago.  

I have replied to every incoming
message from you, since you got
it running.  You then tell me
you haven't read them.  Several
of those messages were triplicates
of the exact same message.

Now you want me to expedite the
transmission to you of some very
important template briefs, and
you are under a serious deadline
to get these files immediately.

Jim, as an engineer, you must know
that you cannot build a bridge 
over the weekend.  

I would recommend that you take some
classes, and/or buy some books, like
the manual for Eudora, and maybe also
some books on the Internet.  

I also remember urging you to buy
Eudora, and now I learn that you 
have selected some other sofware, and
you want me to support you in the
installation and training with software
I don't use and have no knowledge of.

This is not working, Jim.

What do you recommend that we solve this
situation?

I want to continue working with you,
but you are not holding up your half
of the bargain.  I do not have the time
or the desire to teach you really basic
things about the computer you bought.

If you don't want to work with my
recommendations, or come up with 
something which we mutually agree
is better, then you should consider
going your own way.  I am not having
these kinds of problems with literally
hundreds of other email users with whom
I interact on a daily basis. 

You must bite the bullet and learn what
you need to learn.  This means learning
about the fundamentals of baseball before
stepping up to the plate in the World Series.

I await your answer.

/s/ Paul Mitchell
      

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