Fleeing from the madness of the jungle
David J. Hennessy <EMAIL REMOVED> stumbled into news:alt.www.webmaster
and said:

> Red E. Kilowatt wrote:
> <snip>
>> that when doing creative work for hire you often have to deal with some
>> very difficult clients.
>
>
> Amen! There are some who are still in my nightmares (slight
> exaggeration).

I have one on the go right now.

> There have been some really awesome ones, too, though. A lot of it comes
> down to clients who are goal-oriented vs. clients who are task-oriented.

No kidding, this lot were a peach to work with when I was reporting direct
to the main man.

> I've found the former tend to respect me as a professional & work
> cooperatively with me, whereas the latter tend to view me as disposable
> labor & are adversarial about negotiating their endless micromanagement
> checklists.

yep - now there's a project management team in place, micromanagement of
every tiny item is dragging this project way over deadline.

> You can guess what I prefer. :-P

10/4

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