A couple of days ago I'd mentioned to some that I met with some people from (Midvalley Mega Mall) MV regarding our software. That was just a brief meeting where they requested a demo of our software in their office. So after days of preparing two laptops, installing the necessary stuff and our software, blahblah, yesterday my boss & I headed for MV at 2.30pm. We were meeting 2 more of "our" people there and of course our client's people.
So, we got to the office and there were a few guys already in the presentation room. So while we waited for the rest of them to come, I started setting up the system, etc. There was 4 of us (including me) and 7 of them. 4 of which are I think from the IT department of Company A, in charge of MV, and 3 is the media company hired by Company A. With everything set up, we began the presentation... me being the presenter of course.
Overall, the presentation went well. Any problems or whatever that went through I knew how to tackle and surprisingly I wasn't as nervous as I thought I'd be. Aside from the fact that I had to desperately search for words which failed my memory a couple of times x__x *uhhuhhhwtfisthewordwtfwtfuhh* Of course during and after the presentation there are questions. Questions which are... questionable =__=
The fact that Malaysians will always be Malaysians and ask anal questions, I suppose it is expected! You show them this, they ask for that plus x, y & z. They have this mentality where they must find a way to shoot you down with "stupid-which-think-are-so-smart" questions just to feel good of themselves. Tough luck MISTERs, I know the software like the back of my hand -_-.
Take situation #1.
Mr Oh-my-England-so-good-I-can-talk-with-slang-liao, who's not even going to smell the software let alone use it says "Oh I don't want all this gimmicky stuff. Just something to put the adverts out there."
First, duh... if you're a user, this software WOULD make it easy and put the adverts out there...
Second, gimmicky means "A significant feature that is obscured, misrepresented, or not readily evident". If it was all some bullshit, would we be able to HAVE a demo right before your eyes and SHOW THAT EVERYTHING IS WORKING and not some preplanned lala?
What a dumbass. Well I guess thats what you would expect from a media person. OH! But wait a minute! I might have to eat my words here.
Take situation #2.
There is the IT guys... whom you'd think would be smarter than that, asks me about the speed Machine A takes to download from Machine B.
First, downloads depends on your connection and if it's just directly from pc to pc (which was the case in this demo) it'll be quite fast but nooooooooooooooooo...
Mr I'm-so-smart-I'm-the-CTO asks Mr n00blet-pretending-he-cannot-smile, who was sitting next to me, to time how fast the download takes. Stooooopid I tell you... couldn't ask anything more related to the software iszit?
Can you imagine, at one point the two of them were ACTUALLY passing notes to each other on a piece of paper. LIKE it couldn't wait??? SO unethical and unprofessional!!!
Is this going to be the case of every other company I present our software to? I didn't have such problems with the Swiss fellas. But then again, they understand the software a lot more I suppose. And are they just giving me a hard time since I was the only female in the room and most likely the youngest and being in this sorta field, females are looked down upon/underestimated? I'll have them know that this entire SOFTWARE was done by TWO GIRLS!
*wrings somebody's neck*
All in all, my boss and the other 2 people from my company said I did a good job presenting. So yay me. Now.. to ask for a pay raise >.>;
