20 Times Freelancers Had To Deal With Clients From Hell

I love the fact that the client thought they did something by... doing nothing. I guess they don't understand that freelancers can have more than one contract going at a time.

Yeah... I'm pretty sure we've all done this exact thing before, either with the phone in our hands, or the pair of glasses on our head. It's literally only funny when it happens to someone else, though.

I laughed at this way harder than I probably should've. I seriously wonder how long it took them to figure out the logic behind this, because they clearly aren't getting it in the moment.

I don't know what it is with some clients and not wanting to actually pay their contracted workers, but this is pretty ridiculous. Imagine going to a store and only paying half price for something because you feel like it.

Imagine if Google actually ranked everything by alphabetical order. We'd have countless companies going by names like "AAAA" or something just to stay on top.

Thankfully, it doesn't actually work like that.

I love the way the client acts like the freelancer just performed a literal miracle. I guess this is what happens when you have to deal with someone who knows zero about computers.

But yeah, the freelancer is absolutely thinking that. On the plus side, at least the computer wasn't broken. It was nothing more than a little human error.

Some clients truly want the impossible, and then are real confused when their weird demands aren't met. I'll never get that. Like, what are they realistically expecting?

The logic behind this is astounding. I get that they want feedback as soon as possible, but they also need to sell some stuff before they can get it...?

So, you know how freelancers are bound to contracts for certain jobs with certain employers? Yeah, that usually means clients can't arbitrarily move a deadline whenever they feel like it. Tough luck.

If you've ever made a 20 minute video, you know that it's going to take a lot more than a single workday to complete it. The amount of takes you might have to do is already going to eat up half the day, let alone edit it.

And don't forget about how much time it takes to write a script!

I wonder if this client knows that Gmail is, in fact, a kind of email. Or... maybe they genuinely think that Gmail is its own thing.

Oh man. My hope for humanity just flew down the toilet.

I truly hope that this client doesn't have access to the actual webpage server. Or the webpage at all, for that matter, because they'd probably destroy it in a few seconds.

You don't even need to be a freelancer to relate to this. It's just weird, man, but I can totally see some really weird, boundary-passing boss asking this to any of their young employees.

This doesn't sound real. Like, it can't be real. It's the year 2022, and you're telling me that there are still people out there who have never typed a secure password into a computer before? How!?

In case you didn't know, UX stands for user experience. As in, something that directly affects users. So, does this client really know what they're talking about?

I guess, when you work with enough picky clients, you have to figure out how to price yourself accordingly. How much do you want to be "you design everything" actually means "we design everything," and vice versa?

Didn't you know? Every website that's ever existed costs the exact same to build.

Or at least, that's what some people like to believe, I guess.

I wonder if this client ever took a math class in their life before. As a human being who can count, I promise you that it would never be out of 1000%.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume the kid isn't a recovering addict, and probably doesn't even know any recovering addicts. So, she's not really going to be a good point of reference for this kind of thing.

But I didn't need to tell you that.