“Dear employer, you commanded me
Your commendations now don’t mean as much
Cause I’m a lost cause, causing a problem
But I promise not to be out of touch”
A strange thing happened yesterday… But I’ll give you a bit of background first. I was designing a shitty site for a shitty removal firm who paid shitty money for it, so we’re basically told to give them the bare minimun of what they specify. And I do, but I try to make them look decent…
So I get the brief for this site and it basically says “refer to brouchure”. So I do… and not to put too fine a point on it, it’s a mess, how this firm gets any business is beyond me, but I digress, I put a bog standard site together… Front page is about the company, second page explains their services in a bit more detail and the third page gives contact information.
So I put it all together and upload it and think nothing of it, till my bosses boss (top level boss) comes over to me yesterday to say this guy has put a complaint into Watchdog…
Fucking Watchdog?!?!
She said I should redesign it, but not change the content, just make it look better, it seems that this guy bought a Reliant Robin but was expecting an Aston Martin DB7…
I was so pissed off, I was ready to call this guy and call his bluff, or appear on TV telling Nicky Campbell that the firm could eat my ass with a spoon! Or even better, tell that to Kate as she chases me down the street with a camera crew!
Funny thing is, I don’t really care, I threw together another site and we’re awaiting a response, if he doesn’t like it then screw him… Plenty more business to get on with.