December 2009
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“Please, make a screenshot of this word file and just put it in there somewhere....”
– (via clientsfromhell)
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“I want the design to look like 5 people standing outside a theater, having a...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
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Business as Usual
CLIENT: We’d like to go ahead and book you to handle this year’s edition but, of course, we’re in the middle of a tough recession. So we’ll only be able to offer you about 50% of what we paid last year.
ME: I gave you a heavily discounted price last year as an introductory deal. I said at the time it was a one-off and included a quote at the full price to illustrate.
CLIENT: Yeah… Anyway, we’d like you to get to work immediately, since the deadline is
this time next week.
ME: You had a three-month lead last time.
CLIENT: Uh-huh… Moving forward, we want you to treat this as urgent. Oh, and we’ll be paying you when the project comes into profit, of course.
ME: So, you want me to do three months graft in a week, on the promise that when or if you make money out of my work you’ll pay me less than half what my time is worth.
CLIENT: To be honest, we thought you’d be more grateful.
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Client learns a word he doesn't understand
clientsfromhell:
Trying to wrap up a design for a client, he asked how big the graphical header was.
“700 pixels wide” I replied.
“It’s too small. Can we make it a half pixel bigger?”
I roll my eyes epically on my end and them send him the exact same comp image back. “Here you go”
“Perfect!”.
Later in the project, he asked if we could re-use pixels to save money.
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I don't wear that dress anymore
clientsfromhell:
In response to a brochure layout we presented.
Client: I don’t like the colors you’ve used.
Us: Oh? Is there a particular reason why you don’t like them?
Client: I once had a dress with those colors in it. I don’t wear that dress anymore.