I am so glad it is Friday. I have been so stressed for the last week. It's not good when you go from loving your job to stomach cramps every time you even think about work. (I even ended up going home early one day because I was nauseated all day long, a total stress reaction, I'm sure). And all because of one obnoxious client. It's a couple that have absolutely no clue, and frankly no taste. They call and we all cringe because we know they are going to send us something with a crappy clip art background with hard to read text and then they are going to want it blown up in to a size that just isn't proportional. And we've explained the concept of proportion a million times, and either they don't get it or they just don't care (I think it's that they don't care). They don't listen to anything we have to say, like, "hey, this is kind of hard to read on that background, can we change it or lighten it?" (Hard to sell a product if no one can read what it is, but they like the pretty picture, lol).
So anyway, they placed a large order with us and it's been an absolute pain in my arse. Especially since I know when the product arrives that they aren't going to be happy with it, because that's how they are. They are so damned picky and they just don't grasp (or frankly give a damn) just how much work and time goes into fixing their design flaws. I've tried charging them a design fee (then my boss killed that by offering our services without fees on the big job, argh! The amount of hours I put into that! Frankly, the $30 in house design fee I wanted to charge was still a freakin' bargain, since the company actually prefers that we send out things that take longer than 5 minutes for us to create.)
So now I've decided that I have done my best, and done everything I possibly could for them, they are never happy and I knew that going in, as did my boss, so to heck with it. I just don't care any more. Now I am ready for the weekend to arrive so I can sit back, relax and put work out of my mind.
