Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for December 08, 2011
December 07, 2011
December 09, 2011
Transcript:
Man 1: Even though you're the client, it's my duty to tell you you're wrong. Man 2: Well, as the client, it's my duty to be as wrong as I want to be and to replace you like a used tissue. Man 1: Ok then. Speak slowly so I can write down your every whim.
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finkd almost 13 years ago
And, if you replace me, it’s also my duty to present you with my bill for services rendered, and my right to sue you into the poor house if you don’t pay it.
pksampso almost 13 years ago
I had a few clients like this. Apparently my job was to take the fairy tale the client walked in with and sell it to the world as the truth. And I was the one without integrity?
Barbaratoo almost 13 years ago
This doesn’t just apply to lawyers. Anyone who has “customers/clients” has to either give in or (as I would do), not care if they ever saw them again. I stand up for my principles, regardless. If the customer is wrong, they are wrong. If you start precedents, all following customers will be, in essence, “right.” That’s what’s wrong with many businesses today. They have no principles or scruples.
pschearer Premium Member almost 13 years ago
I’m reminded of an old Jack Benny skit in which he’s driving a department store salesman crazy. When the floor-walker (they had such back then) comes over to ask what’s wrong, the salesman points to Benny and says “The customer is always right and this jerk is the customer!”
(Speaking of scruples, at a coin store I once bought a little metal disk marked with the number two and a sort of backward E. After some research I found it was not a coin at all but a weight from a set of apothecary scales. Two “scruples” equals forty grains. So if I’m ever accused of not having scruples,…)