so there’s this item on neopets called chia flour and what it does is basically, you’re in the battledome against someone else’s pet and you lob it at em and it turns them into a yellow chia. the thing is, the effect doesn’t end when the battle does. like… your pet literally becomes a yellow chia forever. so you could be in there with a really expensive plushie draik or something, a restricted hard-to-get species with a ridiculously expensive color, and suddenly its a chia.
its terrifying, and there have been stories of like, dedicated griefers with millions of neopoints to spend going out of their way to ruin people’s pets. the item has been retired for a while now, so theyre actually in limited supply so people arent really concerned about having chia flour lobbed at their pets anymore…
but it turns out using this illegal neopets site you can just blow 40 bucks on some and really really really really really mess up someone’s day
I had a meeting with a
client who needed some landing pages. I showed him my previous work, and he
decided to go ahead.
Client: We are looking forward to see what you can come up
with.
Me: I will create a contract proposal, and you can look it over and
see if you want something revised before we sign.
Client: Ok, we will talk very soon.
Then, three days later, I send
him a contract proposal with a description of the project and my terms. Since I
work at very low rates I always require the first half to be paid before I
start work.
After the client didn’t manage to read his email for two weeks, I finally hear
back from him:
Client: You’re wasting time. I was under the impression you would send us a
landing page within a day or two, and then we could discuss payment. We never
sign contracts with freelancers, and we never pay up front for anything from a
freelancer.
Me: I never work for free. The fact that you’re expecting me to work
for free, without any guarantee of payment or a contract seems unserious to me.
I always work on a project to project basis with contracts and clear terms for
both parts to ensure my client gets a high quality website and I get paid for
my work.
