{"id":1460,"date":"2012-02-23T22:56:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T21:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2012-02-23T23:00:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T22:00:48","slug":"michael-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2012\/02\/michael-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael (from AfroMarketing) wanted an <a href=\"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/wiki\/eshop\/additional-plugins-and-code-snippets\/add-a-field-to-the-checkout\/\">eShop Extras plugin<\/a>. So he contacted us on Feb 20 in a very sparse email asking for a quote. Needles to say, we asked for some more details. And that&#8217;s when Michael&#8217;s complaining gene kicked in&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhy, he moaned, was there was a 48hr delay whilst we tried to get details (ie how many text inputs)?  Presumably he conveniently ignored the fact he&#8217;d provided naff all in the way of details so far. Either way, Michael wanted the plugin &#8220;in a timely manner&#8221; (e.g yesterday). <\/p>\n<p>12 hours later  &#8212; another email. His 3 text inputs from the day before had now mysteriously turned into 2 text inputs plus 1 dropdown with no less than 16 separate multicolour combinations. Obviously we&#8217;re psychic web developer who should have known this when he first contacted us. Now where is my psychic web browser&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>The same email is also contained yet more comments about bad service blah blah blah. <\/p>\n<p>By this point, we&#8217;d had enough and politely declined to take on his &#8220;job&#8221;. We&#8217;ve seen enough jerks to recognise one when we see one. And we have enough experience to avoid working with such people if we can possibly avoid it.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, this refusal of his work offer was followed by yet more email abuse. According to his web site, Michael is a business\/marketing advisor who knows all about web design and how to use the Internet. Does he advise all of his clients to act this way? If so, I pity them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael (from AfroMarketing) wanted an eShop Extras plugin. So he contacted us on Feb 20 in a very sparse email asking for a quote. Needles to say, we asked for some more details. And that&#8217;s when Michael&#8217;s complaining gene kicked in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}