March 2010
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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…
February 2010
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glad I never said this to a client
clientsfromhell:
Client: “Hmmm, could you make it bigger?”
Me: “That’s what she said.”
Client: “You’re out.”
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January 2010
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“Oh, the product will sell. God wants it to.”
– (via clientsfromhell)
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“I got together 6 of my trusted friends, we each had a bottle of wine and printed...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
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“All these drawings about dinosaurs… Why can’t we have photos?”
– (via clientsfromhell)
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FAIL.
clientsfromhell:
Client: “Well, how big is your computer?”
Me: “My, uh… How big?”
Client: “Yeah. How big? Is it big enough to handle a big sign?”
Me: “Well it’s a newer MacBook Pro so, like I said, I shouldn’t have any trouble.”
Client: “No, like how many inches?”
Me: “Um, well… It has a 17-inch screen.”
Client: “Well that won’t work. We need something that’s thirty or forty inches wide....
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“Above all, when you redesign the website, I don’t want any HTML in it. I’m tired...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
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“Our web application support team doesn’t know html or javascript, can you redo...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
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Dark Chocolate and Water
Antioxidants and pure hydration. Both keep me from choking a bitch while I’m ridin’ the crimson tide.
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“I have printed it out, but the animated GIF is not moving?”
– (via clientsfromhell)
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No freebies, even for a "direct descendant of...
clientsfromhell:
Me: “So what’s your budget?”
Client: “Well we are well known amongst all the Russian billionaires so there is great potential for you to get your name out there by doing this project for free. Also I am a direct descendant of Genghis Khan.”
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Google's threat to leave China →
WHOA. o_o’ found it from Charles’ Facebook page. good read.
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“I was thinking, rather than silence, maybe we could just have, you know, the...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
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TV kills →
so “avatar” makes people feel suicidal and TV kills you indirectly through heart disease…interesting…
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avatar makes people want to commit suicide! o_O →
yeah uh…what? o_O lol i guess if it makes you crave the lush green world then…plant more plants in your backyard? o_o’
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WAAAAAAAAAR
I had a dream that the MHS class of ‘03 had a nerf war in a park (and that was our reunion). Teams of 10 people or more. Maybe I’ve been seeing this Bud Light commercial on tv too much…except instead of paintballs it’s nerf guns :P
Eagles got murdered yesterday. I didn’t expect it to be that bad :/ what happened guys?
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Internet Explorer needs to die in a fucking fire
Finding workarounds for CSS in regards to Internet Explorer 7 is like teaching an idiot born and raised in America in a rich family with good education how to read and write in English because the idiot has no grasp of basic English grammar, just like how IE7 has no grasp of basic CSS coding.
References to Facebook in the media (I lol’ed):
A random Chinese drama: LookFace-y (the...
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“We need something cheap. I mean really cheap. But I want it to look like...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
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Friday Crumbs
the word “crumbs” comes from dlisted’s entry title “afternoon crumbs”, in which random links are posted since he can’t cover all the celebrity news.
thus, Friday’s thought crumbs.
yesterday was the third day in a row that i overslept my alarm by half an hour. last night i decided to set my alarm to star trek: the next generation’s red alert sound...
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“I want a Myspace type site for kids, like ages 1 to 5.”
– (via clientsfromhell)
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It's not as bad as you think it is
I’m probably one of the few to say this, but while 2009 was shitty for me and many others…in the end it wasn’t that bad. After awhile, for every crappy depressing shitty frustrating thing that happened to me this year, there were a lot of good things to come out of it, a lot of lifelong lessons, and some new minds to share and discuss past experiences.
I have a lot of good...
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I'm seein' stars~
clientsfromhell:
Client: I’m having a problem with my password.
Me: What seems to be the trouble?
Client: Well, I type it in but it turns into stars.
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Alternative Payments
OMG.
clientsfromhell:
Client (after telling me the idea for the website): How much will that cost?
Me: Well, you’ve given me a lot of info. I’d like to organize all of these ideas and get back to you with an appropriate quote.
Client: I’d like to get it going as soon as possible. How’s $250?
Me: Uh… that’s a little low. I’d feel more comfortable just giving you an official quote and we can...
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“Humans enjoy suffering; that’s what a human relationship is. There is no...”
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“There’s nothing more demoralizing to someone than coming home (from work)...”
– my brother
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I feel sorry for the families of both people,... →
if the gates are down, the lights are flashing AND the bells are ringing you PROBABLY shouldn’t go around the gates AND the car in front of you. there’s a pretty good reason those goddamn train gates go down. idiot -_-
December 2009
11 posts
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“Can you make it red, but not red, you know? And maybe try a primary color, like...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
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hehe maybe it looks better upside-down! idiot...
clientsfromhell:
Client: “You’re fired.”
Me: “Why?”
Client: “You printed it upside-down.”
Me: “You’re holding the board upside-down.”
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The 14 Worst Words For A Designer To Hear
oh how i’ve heard those words before…. >_<
clientsfromhell:
“I’m not sure what I want, but I’ll know it when I see it.”
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yay cats
clientsfromhell:
Client: sdfpiuaooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu””””’[]
Me: What the fuck?
Client: Sorry, my cat got onto the key-board
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The Daily What →
colbert is <3
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lol powerpoint
clientsfromhell:
Client: ” Your presentation was perfect, your work is brilliant - the best of everyone, priced right and your references checked out”
Agency Rep: “May I ask why we failed to win the work?”
Client:“The other guys did a powerpoint, it had our logo in it and everything!”
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“If you use a dark red frame around the website on each webpage, won’t the screen...”
– (via clientsfromhell)