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Freelancers Anonymously Share Stories Of ‘Clients From Hell’, And Here Are 50 Of The Worst Ones (New Pics)
No, the customer isn’t always right! As much as we like to believe in the best of humankind and pandakind, the fact of the matter is that there are some very rotten apples here and there. They like to come in and ruin people’s day while feeding on their pain. They’re misery-spreaders. And they need to know that what they’re doing is so far from ‘okay’ that you can’t even see the line they crossed anymore because it’s merged with the horizon.
The ‘Clients From Hell’ project (now rebranded as ‘Not Always Right’) shares stories about the most memorable and hilarious tales of dealing with rude, entitled, or simply downright dumb customers. Today we're featuring the experiences of freelancers and designers. Remember to upvote your fave posts as you scroll down, Pandas.
Bored Panda reached out to businesswoman Aatikah Santos, the CEO and Founder of Khaila Beauty Bar, for a chat about dealing with difficult and frustrating customers, as well as how some people still fully believe that the customer and client are always right, no matter what.
"I like to remain calm and take a couple of minutes before responding because I am representing my business. I like to try and make everyone feel welcome no matter what they say. When speaking to rude customers, I try my best to resolve the issue, but sometimes customers can be so difficult that they don’t want to resolve it and would rather just keep getting upset," she said. Scroll down for our full interview with Aatikah.
Got any tales about horrible customers to share with us? Why not pop by our comment section at the bottom? When you’re done enjoying this list, you should definitely check out some more stories about employees of all kinds having to deal with ‘Clients From Hell,’ featured in Bored Panda’s previous articles here and here.
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Michele Ferretto 4 years ago
They should sell to these people also other "premium" arrows, for a higher price, that point "UP" and "DOWN"
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Hell, I'm even willing to search another accountant for you as long as you tell this jerk that I made you switch accountants.
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Isaac Harvey 4 years ago
Whenever someone uses the "I'll sue" line, I always wonder if they'll actually follow through with it.
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Susie Elle 4 years ago
Some people appear to have gone to school with their ears and eyes closed.
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Little Miss Betty 4 years ago
When you want something that everyone else has, but actually have no idea what it is 😂
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Must be because they added them to the spam list. Rule 1: If message contains [ outstanding amount, reminder, past due, invoice, payment, legal fees ] move message to [ Spam] and [ Add sender to spam list] .
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Riley Quinn 4 years ago
C'mon. If Trump could change an entire weather pattern with a Sharpie, certainly you can change the shape of the lake.
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cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
Just for combinations using 30 eyes, 30 noses, 30 mouths, 30 hairstyles, 30 beards you are looking at 656,100,000,000 possible characters
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Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago
Am I understanding he doesn't want POC in his poster? Or am I wrong?
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Michele Ferretto 4 years ago
Unfortunately very common. The more they're rich, the less they want to pay.
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Monica Martinez Castañeda 4 years ago
That happened to me a few years ago, and I work for a multinational company (thousands of employees), so not a small business... Client was looking at different suppliers and had the audacity to tell us: "I like your approach but I don't know if I'm having any budget, but if you're willing to do it for free, you could start tomorrow"
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Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago
But they're stupid enough to tell you they make millions off of it. Lord.
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Lord pretzell 4 years ago
MANLY PAPER. IT IS RED AND DRINKS BEER AND LIFTS WEIGHTS AND PICKS UP CHICKS JUST LIKE A MAN
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Vicky Zar 4 years ago
I hope no artist would do that to another artist! I once wanted a photographer to scan a photo for me and edit it a bit, because I only had that one copy and I did not want to loose it to damages and I had no scanner at the time. The first thing they asked me was if it was from any other photographer or a private photo.
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karla Meixnerová 4 years ago
Similar experience. I had 4 TB of data and I spent almost 30 minutes explaining to someone that 64 GB flash drive is just not enough. Even if I zip it...
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cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
Me: Look, let's just settle the bill, and you can f*ck off somewhere else
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
That's like driving a car to make enough money to get a drivers license and to pay for the insurance.
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
It was, until I found that I could charge this much and make a living out of it.
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Guido Pisano 4 years ago
a former boss when you did EXACTLY what she asked for (of course I wanted it written somehow) and she told that I was wrong, and I showed that was what she asked for - she used to say "I didnt meant that way".
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
They need it in four days, but without a deadline it's also fine if the job is done in 4 months. Just get it down in writing. Judges like agreements in writing.
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ZAPanda 4 years ago
True, your terms and conditions page must be like maximum 3 bullets in short sentences with the key sentence highlighted like so: Screen-Sho...3b7788.png 
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Random Anon 4 years ago
I pity the trees that has to be sacrificed for that sacrilegious ramblings he calls a book.
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Oopsydaisy 4 years ago
If this is true, I can't help but think the client was taking the piss.
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
That's the norm for everything related to IT. HR: We need $15 million to train 2 of our people to interview applicants. CEO: OK. IT: We need $3 million to replace the 30 year old servers running on Windows NT. CEO: ARE YOU NUTS?
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Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago
One of my office manager's brother-in-law pulled a murder suicide one weekend. She came into work the next day obviously distraught to get things wrapped up so she could go take care of business. Our boss proceeded to go into her office and ask her if she can do the billing real quick. By the way, billing is never real quick. We were horrified.
Al Christensen 4 years ago (edited)
A copywriter I freelanced with told me his formula for pricing jobs. Figure out how long it would actually take, double that, and add 20 percent. Then, if the client complains, take off the 20 percent as a "special favor."
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Al Christensen 4 years ago
This all brings back way too memories of my 40 years as designer/writer/videographer. So many idiots and crooks out there.
Legen ( wait for it ) dary 4 years ago
"What? Are you retired ? Then you have a lot of time to work for us for free. "According to the clients from this post.
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Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago
One of my office manager's brother-in-law pulled a murder suicide one weekend. She came into work the next day obviously distraught to get things wrapped up so she could go take care of business. Our boss proceeded to go into her office and ask her if she can do the billing real quick. By the way, billing is never real quick. We were horrified.
Al Christensen 4 years ago (edited)
A copywriter I freelanced with told me his formula for pricing jobs. Figure out how long it would actually take, double that, and add 20 percent. Then, if the client complains, take off the 20 percent as a "special favor."
Load More Replies... Al Christensen 4 years ago
This all brings back way too memories of my 40 years as designer/writer/videographer. So many idiots and crooks out there.
Legen ( wait for it ) dary 4 years ago
"What? Are you retired ? Then you have a lot of time to work for us for free. "According to the clients from this post.
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