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  • PonyBoy0

    Got into a rotten fight over the phone with a client today.

    It started with a text message from him listing 5 things wrong with his site and that he wanted me to fix them all ASAP cuz he's losing business...

    ... I jumped on the FTP to check the files... ... dipshit (the client) DELETED ALL THE PHP FILES... his only reasoning behind doing so is that he saw a couple of duplicate files (ie: bob.php & bob.html)... ... so of course... we must not need those PHP files OR the rest of them for that matter...

    *sigh

    So during the phone call things got a bit heated. He tried to convince me that the site 'not working' is a direct result of the way the site was built and that it was MY FAULT... ... my fault HE deleted files of which he had no clue as to what they do etc etc...

    So, I responded like this:

    "What you tried to do could be likened to you trying to change your own car battery but in the process you decided to cut the wires out of the engine that connected to your battery."

    He responded: "I see your analogy... but I feel it should be more like: I tried to change my oil and now my BRAKES DON'T WORK!!"

    My response to that:

    "You don't know how to change your fucking oil, dude..."

    It took about 30 mins of some yelling / swearing / explaining to make it clear that his site stopped working because HE DELETED FILES.

    He went on to reason that because he downloaded Dreamweaver and now thinks he 'gets it'... that he shouldn't have to come to me to update information on his site. Needless to say, I told him that if he made any more changes / deletions w/out asking me that I would not help fix them in the future.

    Fucking Headache... Mom & Pop Start-ups SUCK.

    • Shiiit, what a tool. Send him a $3000 invoice for a cms. I'll reply to your email soon btw! :)Hombre_Lobo
    • Clients are the dumbest. It really makes you wonder how they're even capable of running a business.CanHasQBN
    • agreed, canHas... agreed...
      hombre... cool :)
      PonyBoy
    • just upload the php files?drgs
    • hahaha FFS, that sounds like a nightmare.pillhead

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