I was working with a client who, it turns out, had been fired by three other designers before me.
Client: Now that you're almost done I'll start going through with a fine-toothed comb [i.e. asking for nit-picky revisions]. I hope you don't quite like the rest.
Me: No problem.
Me: (quietly begins lien process).
I work for a digital advertising company as a designer. I recently worked on a campaign for a large client that wanted to run a flyer-style ad with 3-5 products that would be cycled out every week depending on the deal, running for about 10 weeks.
We started work on the ads for week one… but the client wouldn’t give us a finalized list of the products in time to go live. We wound up scrapping this week and moved to the next.
The ads for week two were promoting a limited-time deal… except I realized that by the time the client approved it, that deal would only be valid for one day. I pointed that out to the client and we agreed to scrap it.
Week three became “feedback hell,” because they realized the product names and pricing THEY PROVIDED were all wrong. I rushed to make the changes in time but every time I finished them they’d add more revisions. Strapped for time, we negotiated to reduce the number of ads so we could go live faster.
Right before going live with that week’s ads, I got ANOTHER round of revisions… for the ads we agreed we weren't going to run at all.
An email exchange I just had:
Client: The business card you designed is TERRIBLE. The background is bad, the fonts are ugly and the general layout is just unappealing. You have no sense of taste. We are paying you a lot of money but you give us this crap? I'm CCing the CEO on this so he knows what I think.
Me: I didn't make this design. Your CEO did. He just asked me to print it.
He didn't reply, but I wish I could have seen the look on his face when he got my response.
Client: Can you digitize this image?
Me: Of course.
Client: Do it in InDesign.
Me: Uh... that's not really the right tool for the job but if you insist.
Client: Great! I actually made it in Illustrator but I want it in InDesign.
Me: Why do you need me to digitize it if there's an Illustrator file?
Client: Uh...
Client: Uhhh...
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