March 2010
63 posts
“Can you tell me what time you are going to bed tonight? I need to know when I...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
clientsfromhell:
Client: “What is the adress of the website?”
Me: “It’s www.*****.com”
Client: “You must be mistaken, where is the ‘@’ ?!”
“You’re making this too complicated when it’s really quite simple. All you have...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
clientsfromhell:
Client: “Did you receive your payment?”
Me: “Yes, but there is a small problem.”
Client: “What is that? You got the cheque right?”
Me: “Yes, but you postdated it 6 months…”
The Internets
clientsfromhell:
Me: “The logo on your website does not need to be that large. It is not on a truck going 90 mph on the highway.”
Client: “Yeah, but it is on the information super highway.”
“Change all text in safety calendar to a kids font like Comic Sans, we want it to...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
clientsfromhell:
Me: “We will need to buy these images to use them for the site.”
Client: “Why don’t you take them from Google images ? It will save us money.”
Email Marketing
clientsfromhell:
“Can you remove the ‘Unsubscribe’ Link?”
clientsfromhell:
For a round DVD Disk Label: “Can you rotate the design by 1/8th of a circle, we like that angle better.”
clientsfromhell:
I did a timer for an auction based website. Client after the review: “I want people to feel the urge to bid… Can you make the seconds go faster?”
clientsfromhell:
One client called me this morning. After a brief discussion and proposing the price, suddenly he said :
“I’m sorry, I thought freelancers work for free.”
“I was wearing a red shirt and jeans in that video I sent you. Can you put me in...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
Clients From Hell: Client: “I googled my name and... →
Client: “I googled my name and there is some nasty stuff about me on the Internet. There is this guy saying in his blog that I am an idiot. I want you to remove that blog and block the Internet if they write shit about me.”
Us: “We cannot do that.”
Client: “Well, get someone else to do it…
clientsfromhell:
Client: “I don’t want the green to have any yellow in it.”
Us: “You’d like something more blue instead?”
[Five minutes of silence.]
Client: “No, I want a green without any yellow in it.”
