I recently came across a site called Clients From Hell and I’m hooked. The site describes itself as:
A collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers.
Although I’ve never done any freelance design work myself, a lot of these horror stories sound all too familiar, since I do freelance web coding and consulting.
Pretty much all of the quotes on their are priceless, but here are a few of my personal favorites.
An animation budget of $1200 for a movie like “Finding Nema” – Link
“The unicorns don’t look realistic enough.” – Link
“Can you make the blue match the color of the sky right now?” – Link
This one hit a little too close to home, sounds like a lot of emails I get from Custom Theme – Link
I browse it every now and then for a good laugh. I know it’s funny but try not to get hooked, it can be pretty distracting.
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If you’ve ever seen those ridiculous “get rich quick” ebooks that promise to teach you “get rich quick” techniques to make lots of money with little to no effort, you’ll probably find the website Buy My Stupid Ebook pretty funny. It’s basically a parody of the ebook sales pages. It almost had me fooled for a second because the page actually looks like something some random ebook author might try to pull off. I have no idea who owns this website, not affiliated with them in any way. Just thought I’d share it with my readers.
I just saw this video on YouTube, thought it was rather amusing. Not even sure if it’s a real product or just some parody. Check it out for yourself:
I just came across this video and thought it was pretty funny. It’s a parody of all these so-called “web 2.0″ companies popping up all over the internet, among other internet-related things. Most of the stuff they talk about is actually true.
