Some designers have bad clients, or so I have heard. And these clients apparently are often the source of great hilarity and frustration. Not surprisingly, some of the stories arising from these awkward encounters between designers and clients have found their way into a web site.

The site is actually called “Clients from Hell“, and there are quite a few hilarious gems listed, though many are simply amusing revelations of client ignorance and/or innocence, and not really deserving of banishment to Satan’s Lair.

Here’s one of my favorites:

After developing a custom e-commerce site we received an irate phone call from the client on the day of the launch…

“We’ve been hacked!” he shouted down the phone, “How could you let this happen?”

“Why do you think you’ve been hacked?”

“There’s an order right here and no payment!”

“Who’s the customer?”

“It says ‘Mr Testy Tester, 1 Test Street, Testville’… It’s clearly a hoax order!”

“Do you think we might have been testing the site?”

“Oh, I see…”

That cracked me up.

For the record, none of my clients, who are all, without exception, well-informed, super-intelligent, supremely tasteful, and good-looking, would ever find stories about them on such a site.