Oh well, by successfully reading someone else's mind I could come up with all the important answers to a very important question in just two minutes.
Do you think employers don't know when you try to cheat them?
As we all know that some people like to use the Top Ten lies every freelance writer or artist must know it is also a fact that you should not over emphasize certain reasons for not delivering your freelance work right in time.
I believe that in 99.9% of all freelance jobs work starts around five minutes before deadline. That must be the reason why project milestones and meetings have been invented. Just to have a little buffer; you know what I mean, don't you?
Well, spinning my head about finding some good sound bites to finish that article Raj stepped in and offered his help. I gladly did some mind reading and just in time finished this article. That's what a good working community and some fine web 2.0 collaboration is good for. Here we go: ...
i guess
Submitted by Raj Dash on October 5, 2006 - 12:28am.
I guess, Markus, that we need a second post: "10 Lies I've Told My Clients", to give them air time :)
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That's easy (a draft)
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Submitted by Markus Merz on October 5, 2006 - 3:23pm.
That's easy (a draft):
10 Lies Raj Has Successfully Delivered To Clients
- Sure, I can do that
- I start immediately
- I hear you loud and clear
- You are my most important partner
- I never got that mail.
- Your samples haven't arrived yet so I could not start
- I am waiting for a sub contractor to deliver
- My computer broke down
- I was in hospital (granny died, sister got a baby, ...)
- I would never lie to you
I have been sitting on both sides of the table.
Just took me two minutes :-)
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I have never lied to a
I have never lied to a client nor have I ever needed to.
That's what account managers and salespeople are for.
I really hope that everybody
I really hope that everybody realizes that a project or project work never gets better when people start lying about facts.
Instead - that was the thing about the first list - more people start to think that it is totally OK to take delivered work and to not pay the bill.
On the other hand as a blogger you have so many hats to take care of - account manager and salesman are for sure some of them.
and then there's the truth
And then there's the truths that sound like lies:
(1) PFF ate 6 hours of work because I had multiple windows going.
(2) My wi-fi connection isn't working.
(3) I blew away a 17Gb hard drive.
(4) My TV PVR box's remote control keeps crashing my computer.
(5) My dog keeps having to go out.
Raj, what about a "Ten
Raj, what about a "Ten technical lies why I failed"?
"Neighbor house water flooding caused 100% damage. Only snail-mail available."
a) better list title
b) Lies are max. 12-15 words
c) The more complex the better
You have to decide:
No mix allowed!
Of course everybody may join that little list generator game.
still thinking
Still thinking that one through.
(1) My neighbours keeping using the Internet. (I'm on cable.)
(2) There was a storm and the neighbour's Wi-Fi that I steal connections from is out.
(3) There was a power failure and I lost my work.
(4) My laptop overheated and the Wi-Fi card cuts out for several hours.
(5) My TV shows keep distracting me from writing.
That's a good start. It's
That's a good start. It's late. I will continue thinking about that later on :-)
Another...
I haven't got any discs and all the shops are closed. I'll get some tommorow (next week).
I used to tell the lawyers I
I used to tell the lawyers I worked for that the dog ate my laptop. Of of them thought I was serious and offered to buy me a new one. Sadly, I'm too honest, so I didn't take it.
Manual trackback :-)
Amy, you are allowed to post a manual trackback. Don't be so shy esp. when handing out so nice compliments :-)
"... But if you want some real slacker inspiration, then his subsequent 10 Lies I've Told My Clients post is the real must-read. ..."
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