Mike Monteiro | F*ck You. Pay Me.
by San Francisco Creative Mornings
http://vimeo.com/22053820?utm_source=swissmiss
This is a video that I am actually watching on Sunday Morning and a big thanks to DTown TV's RC talking about designers and companies who are doing work and will need to be paid to continue their operations and what reasons clients has been giving design based companies in order to pay lesser or not pay at all. This is a fantastic read for any one who are operating or working with design companies.
So...Just to relate some of my experiences working with clients and I do have the courage to "fire" my clients as sometimes it is usually not worth working with them as well from where I am working we are working with individuals that come to us with genuine marketing problems but just doesn't want to pay for a solution that we are offering. This is the bottom line - We are running a business, not a charity organisation. We have to survive.
Therefore if any of my clients start to say the word, "Don't you trust me?" and thought that I will let them off by doing the work before they make any payment, I will just walk away. As I will be forced into a different kind of working experience that requires more of my time and energy.
Here is the irony, my colleagues and me are based in this sunny island of Singapore, and what is the problem? We don't get to enjoy the sunshine that we have. We are "locked" and "bounded" inside offices to complete work that sometimes not rewarded by these people who so called we trust. It is not about the trust, but it is about work.
Think about it the next time when you meet any freelance workers, perhaps offer some empathy to them. They have kids, family, wife to feed too.
- Jason
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