Especially familiar is the part about "teaching us how to do it so we can produce it in-house." Anyone that's ever been in the commercial art business has heard that one. I'm passing this vid around to my designer buddies. Hilarious.
These conversations are one of the things that really pushes me away from interactive/web design. I honestly just don’t know how to deal with someone who wants me to work for free, will only pay a cut rate if I do get the contract, and makes it abundantly clear that they’ll send the work to some guy in Bengaluru if I want wage that would allow me to pay off my student loans. And that’s just the design firms…
Here in Spain we have a lot of problems with "primos" (cousins) who have learned how to use photoshop and therefore can do logos, posters, websites and whatever they are asked for, charging 10% of the normal rate.
What piss me off is that clients won't actually say those things when they go to a restaurant, buy a CD or have a hair cut, but when they are dealing with a designer, those lines came out.
Sometimes I feel like designers are worse than those guys who sell newspapers by the roadside. At least no one bargain with them.
1.Jun.2009 2.16am
Can you imagin this in the supermarket with a line of people behind you.
Very funny vid ;)
1.Jun.2009 4.58am
That hits too close to home!
1.Jun.2009 9.32am
That was too good. Pretty much covered all the bases.
1.Jun.2009 9.48am
In India, this is pretty normal. Part of the business.
1.Jun.2009 10.13am
Especially familiar is the part about "teaching us how to do it so we can produce it in-house." Anyone that's ever been in the commercial art business has heard that one. I'm passing this vid around to my designer buddies. Hilarious.
Stan
1.Jun.2009 10.22am
These conversations are one of the things that really pushes me away from interactive/web design. I honestly just don’t know how to deal with someone who wants me to work for free, will only pay a cut rate if I do get the contract, and makes it abundantly clear that they’ll send the work to some guy in Bengaluru if I want wage that would allow me to pay off my student loans. And that’s just the design firms…
1.Jun.2009 11.22am
That lady is just stupid. She should have just gone the crowdsourcing route and had a bunch of stylists enter a haircut contest.
Sadly, in this economy, I'm seeing these customers 'winning' more often than not.
1.Jun.2009 1.22pm
Brilliant!!
2.Jun.2009 7.37am
I would like to see someone have this conversation with a hitman that they just hired.
ChrisL
2.Jun.2009 4.16am
Magnificient!!
Who's the genious behind this?
Here in Spain we have a lot of problems with "primos" (cousins) who have learned how to use photoshop and therefore can do logos, posters, websites and whatever they are asked for, charging 10% of the normal rate.
Cheers.
www.yagobolivar.es
24.Jun.2009 9.35am
Great movie Joe... so familiar in every single way.
26.Jun.2009 8.29am
You know what?
What piss me off is that clients won't actually say those things when they go to a restaurant, buy a CD or have a hair cut, but when they are dealing with a designer, those lines came out.
Sometimes I feel like designers are worse than those guys who sell newspapers by the roadside. At least no one bargain with them.
26.Jun.2009 8.37am
Not sure about your country, but over here, client won't bargain with an architect, but they would do that with a graphic designer.