Does anyone else have a client that just refuses to open attached files? And then gets angry that they aren’t understanding...

Oh just me...

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ugh yes. idk how they make it through life not knowing how to do this.

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It’s so frustrating lol. My client wants all pertinent information from reports in the body of an email... but then asks a million questions about how I arrived at those numbers. ... and then I have to direct them back to the actual report they didn’t open. 😩

All. The. Time.

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I have a client that doesn’t read decks. Then is confused on calls like what is this. So yup.

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