A client contacted me to add a copious amount of information to their existing engineering-heavy-informational website.  He sent many PDF files which he wanted converted to webpages.  It was boring work, but completed in a timely manner.  A few days later, received a very angry phone call…

Client: You’ve ruined our website!

Me: What seems to be the problem?

Client: I have clients and vendors calling constantly telling me what’s wrong with our website!

Me: Could you tell me what’s wrong with your website?

Client: Our name is wrong all over the site!

Me: I’m looking at your site now and it looks fine.

Client: Look at our name!  The registered mark is all wrong!

It turns out when doing a copy-paste of all the new text, I did not convert the ® to a superscript ® in four locations out of many. Hardly “ruined.”

I really doubt he had clients and vendors calling to tell him that.

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Source: Clients from Hell