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	<title>Comments on: If Clients Treated Other Professionals the Way They Treat Freelancers&#8230;</title>
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		<title>By: Amy Dunn Williams</title>
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		<dc:creator>Amy Dunn Williams</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have to agree - this video would be funny if it wasn&#039;t so sad! And I agree with Blouze. When clients have tried to back out of their end of an agreement by not paying me or trying to renegotiate our fee after the work is done, I&#039;m always straightforward. I simply say, &quot;This is my job, not my hobby, and I can&#039;t afford to work for free, or to change my fees after the fact. You are contractually obligated to pay me, and I expect payment now.&quot; It usually gets me paid, and quickly, because they realize that I&#039;ll stay in their hair until my check clears.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have to agree &#8211; this video would be funny if it wasn&#8217;t so sad! And I agree with Blouze. When clients have tried to back out of their end of an agreement by not paying me or trying to renegotiate our fee after the work is done, I&#8217;m always straightforward. I simply say, &#8220;This is my job, not my hobby, and I can&#8217;t afford to work for free, or to change my fees after the fact. You are contractually obligated to pay me, and I expect payment now.&#8221; It usually gets me paid, and quickly, because they realize that I&#8217;ll stay in their hair until my check clears.</p>
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		<title>By: Blouze</title>
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		<dc:creator>Blouze</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah.
Right.

Maybe this film has already buzzed to its death, but I just watched it and I can&#039;t help having the same feeling than Nick, a bit of comfort, then sad...
God, am I really like this guy &quot;Todd&quot;, trying to serve such d***heads like I&#039;m a professional? I must admit it occured to me to, say *implode*, in such a case (yell, slam doors, pick yours...). I always end up thinking I&#039;m the one overreacting...
Never occured to me that I was way, way under what&#039;s the bald hairdresser&#039;s about to do with those blades...

Anne: the &quot;other job&quot; or &quot;no time for this&quot; trick might work, but I always prefer not to talk &quot;other clients&quot; with clients.
(My favourite, &quot;I&#039;m glad I don&#039;t rely on you to pay my bills.&quot; is a killshot. Says exactly the same, with a slight variation that puts the customer-freelancer status quo back in its place, ie &quot;you get what you paid for &amp; you pay for what you got&quot;)


We need to fix our sh.. and stop accepting customer irrationnality as the norm!

Good night my fellow freelancers, and good luck.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah.<br />
Right.</p>
<p>Maybe this film has already buzzed to its death, but I just watched it and I can&#8217;t help having the same feeling than Nick, a bit of comfort, then sad&#8230;<br />
God, am I really like this guy &#8220;Todd&#8221;, trying to serve such d***heads like I&#8217;m a professional? I must admit it occured to me to, say *implode*, in such a case (yell, slam doors, pick yours&#8230;). I always end up thinking I&#8217;m the one overreacting&#8230;<br />
Never occured to me that I was way, way under what&#8217;s the bald hairdresser&#8217;s about to do with those blades&#8230;</p>
<p>Anne: the &#8220;other job&#8221; or &#8220;no time for this&#8221; trick might work, but I always prefer not to talk &#8220;other clients&#8221; with clients.<br />
(My favourite, &#8220;I&#8217;m glad I don&#8217;t rely on you to pay my bills.&#8221; is a killshot. Says exactly the same, with a slight variation that puts the customer-freelancer status quo back in its place, ie &#8220;you get what you paid for &amp; you pay for what you got&#8221;)</p>
<p>We need to fix our sh.. and stop accepting customer irrationnality as the norm!</p>
<p>Good night my fellow freelancers, and good luck.</p>
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		<title>By: Jennifer Escalona</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jennifer Escalona</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you, thank you for posting this! I needed the belly laugh after working on an Alzheimer&#039;s series all day. (Which the client, I&#039;m sure, will try to negotiate. I guess I could make a joke here about him &quot;forgetting&quot; the rates, but after all the heart-wrenching stories I&#039;ve read today, that&#039;s just too mean.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you, thank you for posting this! I needed the belly laugh after working on an Alzheimer&#8217;s series all day. (Which the client, I&#8217;m sure, will try to negotiate. I guess I could make a joke here about him &#8220;forgetting&#8221; the rates, but after all the heart-wrenching stories I&#8217;ve read today, that&#8217;s just too mean.)</p>
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		<title>By: Nick</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This would be funny if it didn&#039;t hurt me on the inside...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This would be funny if it didn&#8217;t hurt me on the inside&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: If Clients Treated Everyone As Freelancers &#124; Still As Life</title>
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		<dc:creator>If Clients Treated Everyone As Freelancers &#124; Still As Life</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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