Insurance companies suck!

[elfs]

I am so tempted to mail this to my former "benefits provider:"

Attention, "corporate service provider" schmucks! The following notice on your website is not only a sign of incompetence, assholiness, and a general lack of concern for your customer's well-being, at this point it indicates an almost dysfunctional malevolence on your part:

This site has been optimized for use with Microsoft Internet Explorer browser version 5.5 or higher.
Please check with the Microsoft Website at www.microsoft.com for a browser upgrade.

No, I won't check with Microsoft, as nobody in my house is running a Microsoft-based OS. It's all Macintosh and Linux here, guys. 22% of the home user market is now non-MS. You are failing one-fifth of your market. Your website doesn't work at all with Firefox, looks horrible in Safari, and boots users out the first time some MS-only exploit fails. Get yourself a better collection of designers and developers.

Hell, hire me.

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[jenk]

Indeed. Of course, they also paid for time we spent on a conference call walking the client committee through the contract with all the strikethroughs through "redevelop XYZ component to be non-IE-specific" and "test in Firefox and Safari on Windows and Mac" and so forth.

We ended up doing some *partial fixes* which cost more than they'd "saved" on the original plan. But that all went into the maintenance budget, so the original was "under budget".

Oh...and this client was NOT Microsoft. ;)