Slow pays, no pays, whiners and complainers! They think they know it all, but can't turn on a computer.
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[size=x-large]CLIENTS FROM HELL![/size] I dealt with one of them a few months ago. An online colleague saw what I was accomplishing with XOOPS and decided he wanted to convert his sites from phpNuke.
Going live before he understood XOOPS was not an option I wanted to mess with, so I convinced him to install locally first.
And then the problems started.
Here's a guy with 5 web sites who doesn't understand FTP, cut & paste, or where he saved the files on his computer.
I spent the next
TWO WEEKS on the phone teaching him the in & outs of
his computer, what right click does, how to upload files, and got him to download Filezilla and Filezip. I also converted a theme and a load of templates, set up the database and taught him how to back everything up. I also had to show him how to set up Google ads on the adsense homepage!
During the whole freaking ordeal, he's telling me I'm doing everything wrong and that this ";" is a colon and this ":" is a semi-colon. He uploaded modules into themes, themes into modules and decided to rename index.php to index.html because he "prefers html files."
I spent two days straightening the mess out.
Once that was done and the site went live, he apologized for giving me problems and said he was mailing me payment.
When his "payment" finally arrived, it's in a package the size of a shoe box and sealed with a mile of tape. I know this guy's rich, so I'm hoping it's stacks of $10 or $20 dollar bills. After what I went through, we both knew I deserved it.
It was a boxful of homemade copies from Old Time Radio shows - and they weren't even decent episodes!
I still get emails from him asking for this and that, but I haven't responded at all. I can think of better things to do - like beating my head on a wall.