Last week I got an email from a blue light special wanting to hire me.
(Yes, even though I don’t do client work.)
And, he sent his proposal in some kind of weird blue highlighted text that was difficult to read. Anyway, he ends his proposal with:
“Can you help?”
elBENBO: nope, not when all your text is highlighted in blue
WANNABE CLIENT: I simply copied it from the website enquiry that you never bothered responding to in the first place. Don’t worry – there’s plenty of respectful, kind and courteous copywriters that would be grateful to work on such a project. Must be an Amercian type of thing – rude and arrogance?
elBENBO: I don’t do drama, go away
WANNABE CLIENT: Fuck off wanker!
And so it goes.
It amuses me to no end how non-Americans always try to make themselves sound above us “arrogant” and “rude” Americans, by being arrogant and rude and condescending, then thinking we will want anything to do with them.
Must be a non-American type of thing…
Anyway, two immorals to this story:
1. If you want to hire someone don’t make your proposal hard to read
2. Don’t be a douchecanoe about it — fact is, I would have happily passed him on to my “Email Players” subscribers as a lead, as one of the perks they get is client leads that come my way
That’s it for this time.
Time for me to be a wanker elsewhere…
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Ben Settle
