No Show, No Clue

Client: “Why hasn’t [project] made any progress?”

Boss: “Well… you no-showed for the past two meetings, and we were waiting for input. I left you a voicemail.”

Client: “What? I never did. When were those meetings?”

Boss: “[Date #1] and [date #2].”

Client: “This clearly isn’t my fault. I couldn’t have no-showed then because I wasn’t even in Minnesota that whole week.”

Boss: “That’s… Yes, but—”

Client: “Besides, I don’t even know how to ‘no-show.’ How do you expect to do work when you need your clients to do all this technical stuff?”