stupid clients
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- ********0
ok i will stop it. what is 8dot3 btw?
i mean the name.
- exposed0
I bet when you call up your financial advisor you too ask stupid questions, there must be a thread about us too
“You can get that internet thing through the mail, right?”
- 8dot30
well, it came from my web-site name which came from the ms dos naming convention.
filename.exe
888888.333
- ********0
i once freelanced for another "design" office, which was actually an account manager with no sense of design...
I was about to do a few brochures for some really wellknown/respected companies, and asked him if he could deliver me the photographs... he stared at me as if I asked the dumbest question ever...then I stumbled....and then asked..'Yes, like photographs delivered by a client or bought from a stock agency"...he then said: 'I got many books from agencies (samples!!) you can scan and on the web the best source is always Google'.
he even instructed me to remove watermarks by endless retouching work. what an ass....
after I found out what he was prepared to pay me I ditched the fucker. (you don't wanna know).
- ********0
ok, 8.3
- sexypixel0
me: can you send me the logo in digital format.
client: sure, do you want me to fax it to you
- chilaquil0
sexypixel:
my question is... did you laugh out loud? I just don't think I could've helped it. I'm laughing out of my chair right now.....
- sexypixel0
I could barely hold in the laughter, but i just saud, "that would be great, and maybe email me a copy too."
poor guy.
- ********0
ha, that reminds me:
Last year i had this girl on the phone who worked at a big ass advertising agency and she claimed she knew the ins and outs of design, although their designers had a day off she could send me all the files I need, so I check my inbox and I get (really) 2 gif files and 3 jpegs, logo's for h.q. print work.
So i call her back and I say I cannot use them, the logo's need to be in eps format or illustrator format, she apologized and said no problem! we have illustrator here! *giggles*
15 mins later I check my inbox and find a file in .ai format, so I open it in Illy and it appears she embedded the bitmaps in the illustrator document.
aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrggggghhhh!!!!
- chilaquil0
and then you wonder how it is that those morons have jobs, and qualified and talented people are jobless. this fucking world is upside down...
- miguelhahn0
-me: wath content do you wana show un the web-site??
-client: I dont know, just do it and we give you contents later, you can change it once done¿right?This really fuks me off, and i think it is why i dont like webdesign as much as before, like 80% -90% of my clients say that to me :'(
- widz0
why isnt my site bobby compliant???
because its a flash site.
- donal0
Heres the thing; in order to win business you must often arm the marketing people with the terminology to convince the money men to choose you.
Once the project begins the marketeers ignorantly spit your own words back at you with no clue as to what they are talking about. "its too heavy/light, theres too much/ not enough movement, contrast, balance, rhythm, aarrggghhhh...!"
- phoeniks0
"we want the page done in 2 weeks... we will give you the content during the next 6 months"
i think every client has this problem
- unknown0
A client of mine calls and want to have one of my posters reprinted with new headlines and colors.
I tell her "cool, you´ll have to pay for the rights and then an hour or two for the changes."
She needs a OK from her boss. Calls back next day.
"Well, we actually don´t need the rights, just the changes, is that OK with you?"
It wasen´t not, so they had to pay in full; pure souls!!??