Clients from HELL!!!
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- iheartfun0
Client: “Make the numbers in our phone number capitalized to stand out more”
Me: “That’s not possible...”
Client: “Just hold the SHIFT key and type our phone number!”
- must_dash0
Client: “We ran the ad you designed in a magazine and no one bought our product, so we would like a refund on what we paid you and we will be taking our business elsewhere.”
Us: “Maybe the ad didn’t work because you are selling hunting and fishing supplies and you put the ad in a women’s home magazine.”
Client: “That’s because we heard that women make most purchasing decisions in the home. So clearly the problem was with your ad. I’ll be expecting a check.”
- noneck0
Last week I met with a client about their website. The meeting was to go over the copy they had prepared. The client hands me a sheet with a couple of paragraphs of copy for the home page, no problem.
I ask her for the content for the products section. She pulls out a sheaf of paper, printouts of a competitor's website. She goes through each page and crosses out the photos and pullquotes, "we don't need those pictures, but you can just use this text."
"Ummmm, you know we can't use that, right? You don't own the rights to that copy, your competitor does. It even says so at the bottom of the page."
She stares at me blankly for (honestly) 10 seconds before saying, "But it doesn't mention their company name. Just use it anyways."
Great, now I'm a plagiarist.