Clients from HELL
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- breadlegz0
Josev - maybe so, but who's job is that?
- Sneakybadger20
mmmm Affiliate spam...
- bjladams0
"we would like you to add this paragraph to the web banner."
"the banner is only 468x60, if you want that and the logo and the photo and contact info, it's not going to be legible"
"we think it'll work"
... some time later...
"that's too small - the letters, they're too small, they need to be bigger"
"cant make them bigger, they'll fall off the edges"
"well, we cant have that. perhaps make the logo bigger too. and make the image more hi-res-y"
...- That client doesnt need to be educated, they need to be smacked.Josev
- Shiiiat. I swear I've worked with the same clientGlitterati_Duane
- lol @ hi-res-ytymeframe
- 52 frame gif?Amicus
- Josev0
^ That's funny and depressing at the same time. Depressing because I run up against crap like that all the time. So who was the problem? The client? Or you for not standing your ground? You're the professional, you should have insisted that they keep the information simple. The user would have click through if they were interested.
- media planners can be the problem too. Stop selling fucking stupid banner sizesanimatedgif
- skyscrapers never look good, EVERanimatedgif
- bjladams0
@josev,
this was a freebe - not an item for sale. it's not how we (i) do business, just trying to offer technical help to a committee who seems to have no head.
- fooler0
wife's company needed a new logo and biz card for a health company.
wife's boss asked me to do it, I refer someone else and he passes and he referees someone else.
They agree on a design and go to print.
Wife's bosses boss hates new cards and logo and calls my wife into his office to discuss what they can do.
Wife explains she had nothing to do with it but if they signed off on the designs they should pay him.This is why I passed in the first place, I knew it was going to be a client from hell and somehow I still get involved.
- ********0
I'd like to see a thread of all the unusual classifieds that we see... and links to those jobs... so we can "educate" future clients.
- ********0
Every designer's goal should be to eliminate clients from your work altogether
- vaxorcist0
I knew a prof in school who seemed to have been able to almost do that... he was a trust fund baby who had a bunch of pro-bono clients and a stack of awards, didn't need to do anything "below him" and he was quite a shit
- Isn't that the definition of professor? All talk, no show?********
- This and an enormous ego does the trickOBBTKN
- Isn't that the definition of professor? All talk, no show?
- ********0
It's all about approach...
- breadlegz0
@abettertomorrow ... would that mean becoming an artist?
- necromation0
I built a site for Satan... Does that count?
- brains0
Ha. I designed a good portion of that book.
- breadlegz0
@brains - really?
- hektor9110
In my years of designing I learned to spot the clients from hell. I usually declined working with them or send them to someone whos starting out. (always warning them)
About educating the clients I always spend a fair amount explaining the correct way to to approach the project. If they don't listen I just do what they want. I've learned that trying to really change the mind is very time consuming, stressful and costs money.
- pastpastdue0
Promised a site that wasn't content-managed. Overachieved and made their project area content managed because it made sense and didn't require me to populate it. Now client expects whole site to be content managed for free and doesn't understand that it's not that easy. Wrists.
- Lesson learned.... never overachieve you stupid bastard! :)ETM