Remember seeing this and thinking we all have that one client…

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    1 year ago

    When I was young and didn’t know better I was hired to make a small website for a pet company. What started as a simple broucher about their business morphed through multiple revisions into a completely custom CMS monster that had integration with their inventory system so the website always had the up to date items they carried and prices.

    I had to put my foot down in the end. They were happy, everything looked and worked great, but they wanted one more thing to top it off. An animation of dogs running down through a a grassy field playing with each other around the logo. I was like, you mean hand drawn like in a Disney movie?

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      This is just beautiful! I’m most definitely sharing this with my Co dev tomorrow. He is going to love the level of scope creep (he is well known for dropping us right in it and leaving them get away with things never discussed or agreed before hand) and the dogs and logo is chefs kiss!

      I’m perplexed daily by what planet some people are living on. Just when you think you have witnessed it all, seen every crazy request in the book a client drops one pit of the blue that leaves you with a feeling of “how the fuck do I respond to this without insinuating their a total and utter moron”.

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      Suspect if we went down that road though, the next thing would be - can we add some sort of filter over the camera stream, to make the potential customer look like they NEED to buy my products…

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    Charles Babbage put it best:

    I am not rightly able to apprehend the kind of confusion that could provoke such a question.

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    I find it so cute how he cluelessly wants to have a mirror on the website. It reminds me of people wanting to download more RAM or store Wi-Fi in a box for later usage.

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      It reminds me of those videos where people put a piece of paper over their mirror with an object behind it, then look at it from the side and say “HOW DOES THE MIRROR KNOW?!?!”, because they cannot understand how the object behind the paper is visible in the mirror, when the paper clearly blocks its “view”.

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      Like the box that contains the internet on the IT Crowd…

      As the audience stares in sheer awe !

      :)

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    I have to wonder what sort of model of the world someone who makes this sort of request has. How do they think mirrors work? Screens? Images?

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      I have given up on Logic when dealing with clients… Trying to figure out what they actually mean is never what they actually mean.

      It seriously blows my mind that some of these people are like CEO status of huge companies. How they even function in every day society and remember to breath is beyond me.

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      I once had one on an e-commerce store…

      “The dollar sign before the price looks a little bland… Can you make it POP or doing something more interesting like make it move around or something?”