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Worst Client Jude Alexander 01-09-2008
`--> Re: Worst Client Michael Bulatov...01-10-2008
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Posted by ++ on January 10, 2008, 7:03 pm


Michael Bulatovich wrote:

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>>Michael Bulatovich wrote:
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>>>>To Everybody:
>>>>
>>>>Those were interesting problems basically describing the height of
>>>>ignorance in some people. Thanks for sharing those stories. Now, I feel
>>>>like some of my experiences aren't so far off others.
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>>>You're wrapping the thread? What about the guy who wanted *every room* in
>>>his house to face the ravine at the back of the lot, but wanted his house
>>>to be traditional?
>>>
>>>
>>Aha, not a worst client, a design challenge...
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>BTW, Hristos se rodi!
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>

Navistina se rodi. Ego go slavi! (Not what you expected, huh!)

I sang both the old calendar and new calendar Christmas although we
follow the old. So baiscally I did that huge canon vigil and liturgy
twice in slavonic with buncha other people in DC. Son was in Virginia,
shining a laser light on the pavement to keep our wonderful local priest
from stumbling on his way to toss his branchlet in the Badnjak fire.

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Posted by 3D Peruna on January 9, 2008, 11:33 pm
Jude Alexander wrote:
> Anybody interested in briefly describing the worst client they ever had? lol
> (this would be a hard one for me) :)

The woman it took two weeks to realize we'd fired her. She came to us
with a design. We told her it was terrible (in a polite way) and
started over. She kept forcing back to her design. We finally asked us
why she hired architects instead of draftsmen (no offense to Don).

But I think I can come up with worse...


Posted by Michael Bulatovich on January 10, 2008, 9:31 am

> Jude Alexander wrote:
>> Anybody interested in briefly describing the worst client they ever had?
>> lol (this would be a hard one for me) :)
>
> The woman it took two weeks to realize we'd fired her. She came to us
> with a design. We told her it was terrible (in a polite way) and started
> over. She kept forcing back to her design. We finally asked us why she
> hired architects instead of draftsmen (no offense to Don).
>
> But I think I can come up with worse...

Pair of doctors who used a draftsman, who used obviously flawed measured
drawings for a permit on a century old street building, and then instructed
an incompetant contractor to ignored the permit drawings and build across
both side property lines, and cut existing joists that reached past the
property lines to bear on their neighbors structure in order to fiddle with
the plan in a way that would have contravened exiting provisions in code in
countless ways. They got a 'stop work order. I came in, saved their butts
(negotiated an encroachment agreement with the one neighbor while he was in
China, but had to tear down the other offending wall and rebuild on their
property, and used as much of the aborted construction as possible), got
their tenants a coordinated permit for a 60 seat restaurant (since reviewed
by Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand), did it in 6 weeks beginning to end,
and *they* questioned every decision *I* made, every step of the way, and
complained about how long it took. *I* fired *them*, but continued the work
for the tenant until occupancy, who then stiffed me out of my last (small)
invoice.

Small fry, I know. Apparently small restauranteurs are reknown for stiffing
everybody. Beware. As for doctors, well,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_complex sometimes applies.



Posted by Michael Bulatovich on January 10, 2008, 10:48 am

>
>> Jude Alexander wrote:
>>> Anybody interested in briefly describing the worst client they ever had?
>>> lol (this would be a hard one for me) :)
>>
>> The woman it took two weeks to realize we'd fired her. She came to us
>> with a design. We told her it was terrible (in a polite way) and started
>> over. She kept forcing back to her design. We finally asked us why she
>> hired architects instead of draftsmen (no offense to Don).
>>
>> But I think I can come up with worse...
>
> Pair of doctors who used a draftsman, who used obviously flawed measured
> drawings for a permit on a century old street building, and then
> instructed an incompetant contractor to ignored the permit drawings and
> build across both side property lines, and cut existing joists that
> reached past the property lines to bear on their neighbors structure in
> order to fiddle with the plan in a way that would have contravened exiting
> provisions in code in countless ways. They got a 'stop work order. I came
> in, saved their butts (negotiated an encroachment agreement with the one
> neighbor while he was in China, but had to tear down the other offending
> wall and rebuild on their property, and used as much of the aborted
> construction as possible), got their tenants a coordinated permit for a 60
> seat restaurant (since reviewed by Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand), did
> it in 6 weeks beginning to end, and *they* questioned every decision *I*
> made, every step of the way, and complained about how long it took. *I*
> fired *them*, but continued the work for the tenant until occupancy, who
> then stiffed me out of my last (small) invoice.
>
> Small fry, I know. Apparently small restauranteurs are reknown for
> stiffing everybody. Beware. As for doctors, well,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_complex sometimes applies.

Ironically, I get an email from tagged.com TODAY asking to confirm that the
restaurateur is my "friend". <G>



Posted by Chuck News on January 11, 2008, 3:06 am

>
>> Jude Alexander wrote:
>>> Anybody interested in briefly describing the worst client they ever had?
>>> lol (this would be a hard one for me) :)
>>
>> The woman it took two weeks to realize we'd fired her. She came to us
>> with a design. We told her it was terrible (in a polite way) and started
>> over. She kept forcing back to her design. We finally asked us why she
>> hired architects instead of draftsmen (no offense to Don).
>>
>> But I think I can come up with worse...
>
> Pair of doctors who used a draftsman, who used obviously flawed measured
> drawings for a permit on a century old street building, and then
> instructed an incompetant contractor to ignored the permit drawings and
> build across both side property lines, and cut existing joists that
> reached past the property lines to bear on their neighbors structure in
> order to fiddle with the plan in a way that would have contravened exiting
> provisions in code in countless ways. They got a 'stop work order. I came
> in, saved their butts (negotiated an encroachment agreement with the one
> neighbor while he was in China, but had to tear down the other offending
> wall and rebuild on their property, and used as much of the aborted
> construction as possible), got their tenants a coordinated permit for a 60
> seat restaurant (since reviewed by Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand), did
> it in 6 weeks beginning to end, and *they* questioned every decision *I*
> made, every step of the way, and complained about how long it took. *I*
> fired *them*, but continued the work for the tenant until occupancy, who
> then stiffed me out of my last (small) invoice.
>
> Small fry, I know. Apparently small restauranteurs are reknown for
> stiffing everybody. Beware. As for doctors, well,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_complex sometimes applies.
>

Take my word for it. Your worst client is your wife. ( new or existing
modifications )

CID...


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