Client of the Day
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I have one!!!
Last week.Client mails me last wednesday at 9.30 in the evening:
Here is the copy for Catalogue, its still in Dutch, we'll translate it in Norwegian, It will be delivered on Friday. But you can start with the layoutme: Well the copy had to arrive before the 1st of may to garantue it be finished for you fair the 28th (production time, blablabla)
client: sorry, i still i need it the 28th.
so i pull of a marvel at my printers they get it fixed when i deliver this wednesday (yesterday).
Friday comes, no Norwegian copy untill 9 (!!!) in the evening.
All weekend layouting. I actually get in done. Happy.On tuesday morning the client calls that theyre translation agency
did a bad job and translated it in Danish....I get the Real Norwegian copy at 8 (!!!) in the evening and i manage to put into print yesterday...
WTF client. Never had this happen in 6 year.
Next week meeting, going to kick em out if this happens again.- HA. No not HA. F*CK. People have lost it. Including me.FredMcWoozy
- Honestly, what you just described sounds like nothing but a great way to make a lot of extra billable hours.dMullins
- at double time due to urgency and late hours.Amicus
- Yeah. Been there many times. Give em' the asshole taxGlitterati_Duane