Pick 2: speed, quality or price.

[budafist]

You can't have all three ok?

Client: I need this print job today.
My Boss: Sure, we can do it.
Client: The quote you gave me, will you go lower than that? I've got a quote from somewhere else that is lower.
My Boss: That's the lowest I can go. If you have someone else, why don't you go there?
Client: They laughed at me when I said I wanted it today. They can't do it till next week.
My Boss: Well, we can do it today. Take it or leave it.

[Craig B]

At least your boss didn't back down. Man, I love it!

[urstwile]

Woohoo! Way for your boss to lay down the law!

[hewligan]

Yeah. Good on your boss.

[budafist]

I guess so. Too bad he makes lots of "we can do it today" promises!

[morea]

more of us need to stick to our guns.

Please tell your boss I said,

"http://i18.tinypic.com/4t7jsbk.gif"

[carter the artist]

Yeah, the client should be soo lucky that he didn't get "Rush" charges.

[budafist]

I wish we charged rush charges...

[captain spanky]

if i was him, i would have just made some up and the guy would have probably paid up anyway... :)
but yeah, good on your real world boss! :)

[furiouSPEED]

Interesting topic there, I am not alone

The prospective customer from reputed institution have immensely talked to me in this last three days to doing their project only in a week while normally it spends 2-3 weeks.

The difference is they don’t ask me for lower price, they can give me their best price more than usually I got from different customers. I was happy at this stage :)

Well, I have started with the 5 choice concepts of the project since we have only one or two days for arranging the project before running, the concepts are made only in one two hours while usually it takes one or two days, with the consequence of some stress of doing the job exceeding the normal capacity.

Today, when the agreement has to be signed, they asked me for another condition that seems impossible to do in such limited time. I am not sure about working with bureaucrat needs such long procedure, do they only play on me?.

All the talk fallen trough, and No Deal :(:D

[Klavzz]

Quality, quality, quality all the way.
Rush charges would be nice too.
I like your boss....kudos

[Jackimalyn]

Arent you glad that bosses dont just promise the world to clients and then let the designer figure it out? We're lucky, us designers.

...wait, this isnt the lying thread?

[Exodus]

Arent you glad that bosses dont just promise the world to clients and then let the designer figure it out? We're lucky, us designers.

...wait, this isnt the lying thread?

lol!