Oh, The Cognitive Dissonance!
Client: “I need a flyer designed! It goes to print tomorrow morning!”
Me: “I don’t usually take such tight-deadline, no-notice work. I’d need you to wire across half of the payment as a deposit first.”
Client: “How am I going to do that?! Our accountant will be asleep by now, and it would be pretty unreasonable to wake him and ask him to work at this hour!”
Question of the Week
Have you ever served a bad customer who got what they deserved?