Current Events > Dating high maintenance women has given me unexpected job skills

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We have this one client that everyone told me was the nastiest, most difficult, most insane client ever. She'd call 4 times a day and send 5 different emails and change her request over and over. No one wanted to deal with her because most of her phone calls ending in her being a bitch. My first job here was actually to build a case file of her unreasonable-ness so that we could fire her. And yes, as I looked through this file of emails I saw a lot of nasty shit going on. A lot of veiled threats and complaints and drama over not very much.

Now everyone made her sound like a royal pest but I was reading through the correspondence I realised that this is just a woman who has been ignored and treated like an idiot, and most critically - never told to sit the fuck down. I found out that the previous account manager had a habit of agreeing to her requests, never scheduling the work (because it was stupid work) and then ignoring her emails...and then refusing to answer her follow up emails because she was " being rude about it".

Once I realised this woman was really just like my ex our working relationship has been going swimmingly. And I don't think her requests are largely unreasonable. I just think she voices them unreasonably. Like a crazy fucking girlfriend you have to reign in all the damn time because she says shit before really thinking about it.

I'm sorry if this is sexist but really the more I treat clients like my girlfriends the better things tend to go
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so you are having sex with your clients now?

one neat trick that the bosses don't want you to know!
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Darkman124 posted...

so you are having sex with your clients now?

one neat trick that the bosses don't want you to know!

I'd bang her for sure tbh, one of those sexy London MDs in her late 30s
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Too bad you can't put it on your resume
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Muffinz0rz posted...

Too bad you can't put it on your resume

10 year advanced Management Diploma in crazy chicks

I wish
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Muffinz0rz posted...

Too bad you can't put it on your resume

"Can deal with difficult people"
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high maintenance is something one doesn't go for in women :(.
unless there's a good payout from it.
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everyone needs to know their role, tc.

good job.

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Laserion posted...

Muffinz0rz posted...

Too bad you can't put it on your resume

"Can deal with difficult people"

"performs well under pressure"
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You don't need to date high maintenance to know this. It's kind of common sense.
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DoctorVader posted...

You don't need to date high maintenance to know this. It's kind of common sense.

It makes perfect logical sense but years experience as an account manager has led me to believe that most people will handle a difficult client by not handling them directly, which makes the entire thing worse.

Asherlee10 posted...

This describes about 90% of the clients that I work with that are women. I've become sexist against women, I think.

I'm more fearful of the men who never change mood and always seem polite but distant, no matter how angry or annoyed they are. Those are the ones who make you think everything is fine right up until they call the lawyers.

In fact regardless of sex the clients I most worry about are the ones that never call.
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Now you just need to eat her pussy, then talk to her for awhile and she'll reveal that she likes getting handcuffed, blindfolded, etc
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Darkman124 posted...

Laserion posted...

Muffinz0rz posted...

Too bad you can't put it on your resume

"Can deal with difficult people"

"performs well under pressure"

"conflict resolution specialist"
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pinky0926 posted...

I'm more fearful of the men who never change mood and always seem polite but distant, no matter how angry or annoyed they are. Those are the ones who make you think everything is fine right up until they call the lawyers.

that's my technique. I've been angry with a supplier once where he was lying to my face so I called him a liar and spent like 10 minutes proving he was a liar to everyone on the conference call. I got him fired (wasn't he first time he fucked up in a big way). I'm also the guy that sends emails to fortune 500 CEOs with my supplier contacts cc'd when shit gets ridiculous.
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KILBOTz posted...

that's my technique. I've been angry with a supplier once where he was lying to my face so I called him a liar and spent like 10 minutes proving he was a liar to everyone on the conference call. I got him fired (wasn't he first time he fucked up in a big way). I'm also the guy that sends emails to fortune 500 CEOs with my supplier contacts cc'd when shit gets ridiculous.

You're not wrong and it's usually the quickest way to light a fire up someone's ass but I fucking hate the guy that CCs in the most senior person tangentially involved any time things get remotely hairy. Especially if it's internal.

Janice you could have told me that you had too much to do today to handle my request, you didn't need to keep the CEO looped in for christ's sake
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