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Posted by Michael Bulatovich on January 11, 2008, 3:23 pm
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>>> 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...
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
>>
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> Take my word for it. Your worst client is your wife. ( new or existing
> modifications )
My wife's an amazingly patient woman, and she pretty much lets me do what I
want, and I try to return the favor.
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