Broke-ass Clients Video

Aside from the vulgar language this is exactly what bad clients say. I wish this were not true but it is, some people really don’t understand that Web Designers are real professionals who require real wages. This video, in terms of client requests, is exactly like a request I’ve actually gotten thank G-d I didn’t respond the way the “Designer” in this does. One way to know that the job will be very difficult is if the client keeps repeating that the job is really “easy”. If it was easy they would need a Designer.

As a Designer it is hard not to laugh hysterically at this video since I really have gotten requests like this. Although I was never offered a $1.50. I have had people ask for $10,000 worth of work for $100 dollars and that is just as bad in my view.

Sometimes it is ok if the client can’t afford to pay but knows the value of the work. In those cases I’m actually pretty forgiving. The BS that sets me off is when a potential client approaches the relationship with zero respect for a skill set they don’t possess and could never do. I wonder if architects get crap like Web Designers? In a way we do very similar things. I can just see it now:

“Um, yeah Mr. Architect I don’t like foundations, they are too expensive, so can you just build my house without one? And I saw a movie where this house was floating and could reshape itself at anytime, yeah I’ll take that. Oh and by the way, I’m going to need that house designed and built by tomorrow afternoon. The check? Oh we can sort that out after we are done can’t we?”

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