Re: FN-FORUM: Angry Pickle

date posted 9th November 2007 14:32

If you have enough clients that you don't absolutely need this one,
the solution seems obvious .. dump him.

Alternatively, just increase your rates for this one client to a point
where the financial gain outweighs the disadvantages of dealing with
him.

Tom

On 9 Nov 2007 10:46:46 -0000, Jon Hughes [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Morning all,
>
> I find myself in a bit of a pickle today and would like your thoughts.
>
>
> One of my clients is beginning to make me supremely angry. He
> perpetually haggles on costs, always complains of having no budget,
> doesn't understand or value design, and has a knack of revealing
> deadlines hours before work is due. He's also rude, a shockingly poor
> payer and is by no means one of my more financially reliant clients.
> His haphazard way of working is beginning to impact my printer with whom
> I have an excellent relationship and wouldn't want it damaged in any
> way.
>
> I've tried managing him alongside the projects we work on, but the
> process always collapses.
>
> So my plight is, do I tell this client where to go or suffer his
> mind-numbingly stupid behaviour for ever and always?
>
> I think I've just answered my own question...
>
> But, has anyone else had to dump a client? I'd rather compose an email
> than speak to him on the phone (it's like talking to a remedial brick
> wall) but is that a bit weak? I fear he wouldn't remember a phone call
> anyway.
>
> Jon Hughes
>
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