What pissed you off today? Mark II

[Krishus01]

hahahahhahha
no matter things will pissed you off don't ever forget that it is not nice to hurt anyone let me share to you this bible verse i found in this page https://www.facebook.com/1461562490782602/photos/a.1461566544115530.1073741830.1461562490782602/1483116628627188/?type=1&theater

 

[Sweetdaisymae]

My dear, I only ever "hurt" people who ask me to.
Many of us on here actually enjoy carefully delivered pain in a consenting manner.

However I do not consent to the mental anguish given to me by my customers!!! Grrrrrrrr


Lally, I would guess a Christmas green as something reasonably dark, but I know the concept of pantone is too much to ask of most customers

 

[midwestyankee]

My dear, I only ever "hurt" people who ask me to.
Many of us on here actually enjoy carefully delivered pain in a consenting manner.

However I do not consent to the mental anguish given to me by my customers!!! Grrrrrrrr


Lally, I would guess a Christmas green as something reasonably dark, but I know the concept of pantone is too much to ask of most customers

I had to pant one day after too much exercise. That's the idea, right?

 

[Sweetdaisymae]

I had to pant one day after too much exercise. That's the idea, right?

Exercise is terribly bad for you, try to avoid it if at all possible!

 

[Netzach]

I have to chime in with a recommendation. This is not my trick, but it has saved my life. Well, large swaths of my life. I twist this kind of thing into my less conventional business, but it works in most industruies.

"Custom work - I charge 25$ ($250?) for an initial consultation. During this half hour I will get to know you, your story, your preferences, and by the end of this time I will know everything I need to know to make you the perfect widget. Please know that I am very booked, and my special consultations make sure that your project gets the priority it deserves. If you need more time, don't worry - subsequent design planning sessions can be purchased, but you'll be amazed at how much ground we cover, and it's very rare for anyone to need another planning session."

If you are scared of driving off everybody in the world, make the fee applicable to the price of the widget. But honestly, what you're really doing is eliminating the customer above from the sort process. They're either going to buy off the peg or at least be worth your while.

When I was doing jewelry I had the nice customer from hell, who basically made me say "no customs ever." Had I had this kind of thing set up at least I would have made a profit on the gorgeous insanity I wound up making for her.

(Give me one horndog dude over 100 brides...)

 

[Sweetdaisymae]

I'm going to tell myself that we all do work for the same people because it makes me feel better to think that than to believe there are really that many incoherent nutjobs running around out there.

There are herds of them, herds!!

 

[LallyH]

Childish behaviour

 

[Stella_Omega]

My dear, I only ever "hurt" people who ask me to.
Many of us on here actually enjoy carefully delivered pain in a consenting manner.

However I do not consent to the mental anguish given to me by my customers!!! Grrrrrrrr


Lally, I would guess a Christmas green as something reasonably dark, but I know the concept of pantone is too much to ask of most customers

there's always Crayola company, bless their hearts (and bless Google)

 

[BiBunny]

I have to chime in with a recommendation. This is not my trick, but it has saved my life. Well, large swaths of my life. I twist this kind of thing into my less conventional business, but it works in most industruies.

"Custom work - I charge 25$ ($250?) for an initial consultation. During this half hour I will get to know you, your story, your preferences, and by the end of this time I will know everything I need to know to make you the perfect widget. Please know that I am very booked, and my special consultations make sure that your project gets the priority it deserves. If you need more time, don't worry - subsequent design planning sessions can be purchased, but you'll be amazed at how much ground we cover, and it's very rare for anyone to need another planning session."

If you are scared of driving off everybody in the world, make the fee applicable to the price of the widget. But honestly, what you're really doing is eliminating the customer above from the sort process. They're either going to buy off the peg or at least be worth your while.

When I was doing jewelry I had the nice customer from hell, who basically made me say "no customs ever." Had I had this kind of thing set up at least I would have made a profit on the gorgeous insanity I wound up making for her.

(Give me one horndog dude over 100 brides...)

I need to figure out a way to do something like this for writing. I spend more time answering dumbass emails than I do writing stuff I actually get paid for.

There are herds of them, herds!!

Ain't that the truth?

 

[Sweetdaisymae]

She has now asked me four times for the price, which I gave her a full breakdown at the start.
Is quibbling over the 50% deposit I ask for, in order to buy in the leather she wants, and is trying to set a completion date. (when I get the deposit, it goes on the waiting list and gets done in turn.

I am getting truly hacked off with this one!

 

[LallyH]

She has now asked me four times for the price, which I gave her a full breakdown at the start.
Is quibbling over the 50% deposit I ask for, in order to buy in the leather she wants, and is trying to set a completion date. (when I get the deposit, it goes on the waiting list and gets done in turn.

I am getting truly hacked off with this one!

If you're not going to lose too much by it, I'd walk away from this one, hun. I bet you anything that if you go ahead, she'll start trying to find fault with it, and quibble about the balance of payment. It's got all the tell tale signs of problem customer.

 

[IrisAlthea]

If you're not going to lose too much by it, I'd walk away from this one, hun. I bet you anything that if you go ahead, she'll start trying to find fault with it, and quibble about the balance of payment. It's got all the tell tale signs of problem customer.

This.

 

[summerstar78]

Being lied too. i thought that i had something special but i guess i was the only one that thought that....but than again maybe i should have heard the warning signs the first time i caught Him in a lie.

 

[BiBunny]

I've come to the conclusion that I'm in the middle of the most bizarre allergy attack ever, and I am not enjoying a single moment of it.

 

[MeekMe]

Can't concentrate on work today. A crew has set up shop right behind my home to drive small piles into the ground. I have no idea what they need to do that for, but they should stop.

 

[Scrawney]

Thinks it's more of a case of what didn't piss me off today, it's been one of them days to forget

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

Yesterday's work out impeding today's progress.

Ouch! :/

 

[annabel_lee]

A fucking idiot backed into my parked car (which I was sitting in at the time), turned his head and looked me in the eye, then took off! I took down his license plate & vehicle info and called the police. Then those fucking idiots told me that if I file a report it could end up on MY driving record! How is it my fault that he backed into my completely legally parked car??!! I have half a mind to do it anyway.

 

[Vixandra]

Finding work. Or rather not being able to find anything that wants to hire me. *headdesk* Signed up for a vet-specific job fair in a few weeks with a workshop before it, maybe that'll help. But in the meantime, ouch.

 

[gypsy*seer]

Exhaustion...

and still having three more egos to feed

 

[LallyH]

Stomach ache....for the third day running

 

[LallyH]

pull up a chair, this might take a while....

After two years of meetings and a series of artwork revisions, I supplied a proof to a hospital in January this year. They booked and cancelled several meetings to discuss this since then, but I got an email last week from the woman I'd been dealing with asking me to attend a meeting with the consultant and his assistant today, and that she wouldn't be there.

Should have smelled a rat then.

I had to email several times to get the venue for the meeting, and finally got an answer this morning.

Having set off, I then get a phone call from the office saying that the hospital had just rung to say the meeting had been postponed for an hour, making it too late for me to turn back. So never mind, I can arrive and then check emails etc. Get there - no internet or 3G service in the public areas.

Getting a bit fed up at this point, I then go to the upper floor and have to get admittance to the open plan section which is the inner sanctum for consultants. I was told to sit on a chair outside this guy's office, and when he arrives he blanks me completely as he walks past several times. Now, bearing in mind that this area is not public, it must have been pretty clear who I was. But hey ho...

So eventually I get taken to a meeting room, he finally acknowledges my existence, and his assistant then produces a completely revised version of the artwork I'd previously spent weeks on. No wonder my previous contact had made herself scarce, because it now becomes clear that I can't charge for any of my version which has apparently been binned. So they are going to send me their version for me to do some tricky little adjustments that they don't know how to do, for which they don't want to pay me, and then send it back to them in an editable format stating that they own the copyright. At which point they can produce it inhouse and cut me out completely should they so choose.

So yeah. Pretty pissed off...

 

[midwestyankee]

@Lally, perhaps it's time to take out a billboard located across the street from the hospital:

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g68/mwy_photos/placeblows_zpse815a97a.jpg

 

[wicked woman]

pull up a chair, this might take a while....

After two years of meetings and a series of artwork revisions, I supplied a proof to a hospital in January this year. They booked and cancelled several meetings to discuss this since then, but I got an email last week from the woman I'd been dealing with asking me to attend a meeting with the consultant and his assistant today, and that she wouldn't be there.

Should have smelled a rat then.

I had to email several times to get the venue for the meeting, and finally got an answer this

<....>

So yeah. Pretty pissed off...

I'd send them a bill for your time with a note that the consultations were only 'free' because they were included in the cost of the printing job, but since they decided to print in-house, that you were charging for your time. Give them a small discount if you want since you're unlikely to get paid. They'll get the message.

 

[Stella_Omega]

LallyH, bring this story to clientsfromhell.com

I've seen the collective experience solve problems like this.