Not really a client story but this happened to my first day in an IT company when I was supposed to get trained by my new colleagues. Our manager sat me next to a colleague and asked her to train me on her job so I could be a functional part of the team ASAP.

As soon as our manager left, I turned to my colleague who looked frightened.

Colleague: I don’t know what to tell you.

Me: Well, you can always tell what you do first thing when you start your computer.

Colleague: I don’t know!

Me: Okay… Soooo, what programs do you use?

Colleague: I don’t know!

Me: You don’t know what program you use every day?

Colleague: No!

Let’s say the training did not go well. It was really hard for me not to laugh when literally two weeks later she bragged about how she loved training newcomers and how good she was at it.

Source: Clients from Hell