worst 'field' of client?
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- vague
any types of clients you find are pretty shitty overall? i mean in terms of their fields.
like, for instance, "record label managers are the worst clients ive ever encountered. hotheaded, cheap." etc.
i find most small-business owners are typically have all of those 'bad' behaviors, but with bigger clients i wonder if youve observed any trends.
- capsize0
pirate dogs piss on all legs not just wooden ones.
- Corvo0
nanotubemakers are pretty picky.
- harlequino0
Colorectal Cancer Test products
- 7340
i dont know if theyre is a field necessarily that i've encountered but it generally goes that the more computer illeterate you are the more obnoxious and frustrating you are.
generally these people think that because they can check their email succesfully 60% of the time without having to get the IT dept involved they believe themselves to be computer "savy" when realistically they have no concept of what you do, or how outraqeous (even impossible) some of their ideas can be. and the never understand how long something might take. they usually expect something to take about as long as it takes them to describe it
- Daro0
Friends and family, they want everything fast and free
- jawks0
Interesting thread.
While I am not in design per se, but more in the communication/media strategies/PR field, we get to work with all bunch of clients, and the worst kind of clients are usually government-based ones.
Not because of the work itself, but because the 25+ middle management dickheads with nothing to do all day ALL have different opinions and when they've finally come to an agreement on which route to take, they have to move it up the ladder to another 25+ people, and when it's finally beyond the planning stage, the highest-up top dog disagrees with everything and it's back to square one. I can't even begin to tell you how many times over the past year we've been through that exact scenario.
Thanks. I needed to get that off my chest.
- and worst payers too (so i've heard).Corvo
- what do these 25 people really "DO" at work? how much of them are irrelevant?vague
- Most of them are irrelevant actually. Just wasting tax payers money with their presence.jawks
- What's funny is that one of our projects involve re-structuring the organization....jawks
- ...which basically translates to kicking out 75% of them.jawks
- and you wonder why it got delayed...Corvo
- Haha, well that particular project wasn't *that* one.jawks
- Hey, jox, I'm in communications as well, but I work for the government. lolJaline
- Point50
nightclubs. hands down the worst.
- tank020
beer brands,
worked for inbev and now duvel,
and they are horrible.
- Corvo0
self-made people in general are pretty hard to handle when it comes to make any sort of graphical work. They automatically think they own you and that everything has to look like a successful powerpoint. And they like banners.
- flashbender0
people
- spork0
I recently had a bad freelance experience w/ an upscale restaurant. The restaurant and their direction was clean, simple, minimal, and I showed them it and they loved it and even removed some stylistic elements. Then they get back to me a day later asking to "jazz it up "and sending me links to other restaurant pages with intros, click here to enters, moving flash navigation, etc. etc. I fired myself from the project shortly thereafter.
- mrdobolina0
Lawyers
- Corvo0
I dropped out of a website project for some architects/friends recently. It was very hard to establish responsibilities and deadlines. What was apparently the best people to work for (architects, nice projects, designwise, etc...), turned out to be the most despairing experience, because they just wanted a site. People who just wants a site are simply despairing.
- Corvo0
Thinking about it more deeply - every sort of client is potentially a bad one no matter what he does. And truth is they have the same fears about bad experiences as you do. And the same prejudice.
- Antonelli0
Cultural Clients. I've worked with a lot of Native American clients and you practically have to become an expert on their tribes. Everything is VERY sensitive and touchy.
- jawks0
So now that everything's in, what we have left in the good clientele file is basically flyers for missing cats and porn sites.
- Studiospooky0
Record Labels. No contest.
- acee0
Jewelers
- YEAH... They never pay. We need to collectively agree to give them all the same bad logo.Studiospooky
- well with us they pay, but they are very very chaotic..tank02