Here is what I am finding amusing lately — Clients From Hell, a collection of pithy client-horror stories from anonymous designers.
To be clear, I don’t have any actual clients like this. At all. But I have sure met some of these people. And when one is not actually having to deal with them, they are remarkably funny to read about.
Some personal favorites:
- Once I get out on parole, we can really get this thing off the ground.
- Hi could you please fix my website so that people in Canada can’t see it? It makes fun of hockey and I don’t want to get hurt.
- I got together 6 of my trusted friends, we each had a bottle of wine and printed out all 47 pages of the website you designed. I have written the notes out on every page – we have a lot of tweaks.
Ooh, the last one sounds a lot like an editor! (Just kidding! Just kidding! I do not drink when I work…)
I hope you’re enjoying your weekend and that it includes no one from hell.
Awesome site, thanks for the link :).
I know it’s not high end, but http://www.w00t.chaobell.net/20021204.html — I love w00t-comic. It starts out a little draggy but picks up. And hey, LGBTQI.
I need to make a boss from hell quote list. Topping would be:
BFH: (on phone) “I know he’s a pedophile, but if we can’t find someone to supervise him, we can’t find someone to supervise him.”
Me: “What if he hurts some kid? I can’t just turn him loose.”
BFH: “There’s nothing you can do about it.” (click and dial tone)
Before you all panic, yes, I found someone to take the pedophile, because I am the master of networking. If people hadn’t owed me favors, though . . . not funny. Ah, the jobs we do for $10 an hour . . .
Sometimes it’s just sad. Way back when I was lab managing a custom photoshop, I had a gentleman come in—I guess he was in his sixties—with a very old print. It showed a cow, in profile, in a barnyard. You could see beneath it someone’s legs, the rest of him hidden by the cow.
“This is the only photo I have of my great-grandfather. I wondered if you could make a copy and remove the cow so I could see what he looked like.”
He was perfectly serious. I hated disappointing him.