Stupid Client
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- fifty50
So I'm working on a website for the company who I used to work for, as a side project to my new, much better job. Nice to know that my former employers are now my client...
I always knew the boss there was a friggin lunatic and that he had no sense of style or design. I've got dozens of ridiculous stories about this jackass, but I thought I'd tell you about the most recent events.
After completing about half the new website, i get a message from him saying that there needs to be more yellow, after months of him humping my leg for BLUE. okay, so I'll work in some more yellow, what's next? He will not let any more work be done and will not pay me a single cent until there's an image of an eyeball on there somewhere, that he's so horny about. His reasoning is because it's on the cover of their product brochure.
How the eye got there in the first place is a story in itself but since the brochure was apparently redesigned last month after 3 years, they kept the same damn eye photo on their cover.
Anyways the site under construction is being hosted on my web server for them to look at when they want to see how much progress is being made, and i got those messages from him today about the eye after spending most of today and yesterday redesigning the front page.
hope he likes the changes i've made now:
www.nexteradesign.com/cdg/
- k770
http://www.nexteradesign.com/cdg…
it needs some blue dude
- rasko40
needs more eyebell and cow yellow
- Rushmore0
DAMMIT, I was just about to say that.
- fifty500
oh yeah and he wouldn't let it out the door without the word FABRIC being on there too... hence all the fabric horniness.
the guy is a f*ckin jackass
- canuck0
That is one sexy eye.
- QuincyArcher0
no, what it needs is more cowbell!
are you actually going to show him that?
- dan_dan_dan0
Sweet. Update us when he contacts you.
- todelete__20
dude, your balls CLANK!
way to say fuck the man!
- mayo0
take the eye in photoshop and give it glaucoma. It might make it more visually interesting (pardon the pun).
or
make it a whole 80s feel and give her blue mascara (this may be funny only to the girls).
- fifty500
it's on my web server. they have the domain. they look at it every once in a while to check the progress. considering they're only offering me 500 bucks to complete the entire site i'm close to saying "fuck you" and just uploading what you see there and leaving it at that.
- dan_dan_dan0
You do good work 50.
Considering the client, you have been able to forge another great site.
It's a shame the idiot won't just let you get on with your work.
- k770
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it's on my web server. they have the domain. they look at it every once in a while to check the progress. considering they're only offering me 500 bucks to complete the entire site i'm close to saying "fuck you" and just uploading what you see there and leaving it at that.
fifty50
(May 12 05, 11:57)if you can burn the bridge, do it. he ain't paying enough. ie, it's not worth the aggravation, imo
- fifty500
hey, thanks dan... didn't know you were familiar with my work.
the front page there USED to be nice until i tore it apart, as you see, but since the dickhead is all horny for yellow eyeballs then that's the result. maybe i'll upload the original version again some day.
btw, what do you mean by "forge"?
- TheTick0
How long have you been working on this? Does $500 justify the time? Burn the bridge if you really don't like the guy. Aggravation in't worth it, it really, really isn't.
Either that or put some more yellow on it, put a faded eye as a backgroun image in the header somewhere and say "Done" Pay me today or the work is scrapped. I have no more time for this project without seeing any money."
And in the future get a retainer up front, and then bill a % upon completion. Or set milestones with bills at those points. That's what I do - it's called managing cash flow.
- fifty500
initially i asked for at least a thousand but they said "well, you did our last website and we think we paid you enough for that one, so 500 is our limit"
i was about to say "fuck you then" when i looked in my bank account and realized i desperately need the money.
- dan_dan_dan0
Forge: To advance gradually but steadily.
You were able to cover ground basically even though this cunt is causing you grief.
(cunt is a very bad word in Britain)
- k770
fifty, i hear your money woes. know this about negotiating. if you give in once, you'll have to give in again. it's good to be flexible, but don't sell yourself short either.
i hope all works out for you.
- Rand0
much rarer than a good designer is a good client
- fifty500
well the guy's wife is the other half of the management and she's a bit more flexible than her douchebag husband. she probably would pay me more and let me design it the way i think is right but she always says that she can't help it cause he's stuck in his ways.
don't know whether to finish the fuckin thing cause it's like half done or just say fuck it, throw it away, fly back to canada and leave a steamy pile of shit on their front lawn. then i'd stick a little flag in it with the guy's face on it.