It’s the end of week one of a proposed three week project. The client is ready to roll. I am anxious to start…
Yea. Haven’t even started yet. The client’s previous web developer is too busy telling me how to do things to hand over a blasted FTP login.
Three emails back and forth with this guy (note, I’m a subcontractor on this, so I am not dealing with him directly, but the go-between is copy/pasting my emails to him) and I have yet to obtain the information I asked for.
Back story. This jerk dude used to manage the client’s site. In the last month he has removed it from a major hosting account that was costing him a lot of money and temporarily moved it to Godaddy (his own private account) knowing we’d be moving it again anyway. No problem. So, I just ask for and FTP login so I can pull down the old files to keep a backup and easily access the content for the new site.
What should be simple has turned into three long emails of unsolicited web developer’s ‘advice.’ I’ve been told what languages the site is currently built with, what type of hosting it was on, and is on now, what kind of hosting I should be setting up for this client, where I should buy it, what kind of site this client is ‘probably’ looking for vs. what they need, and I could go on…
I swore I would never swear on this blog.
So, in the nicest, I’ve been waiting a full week for a glass of water, voice…
- The client is no longer yours. Stop acting like you give a crap.
- Give it up already. If you had been doing your job, the client would have stuck with you. If you still wanted the client you would have been doing your job.
- I am not fifteen. I have been developing for the web since I was 15. That was over a decade ago. I do not need to know about Yahoo [expletives removed] web hosting services. Nor do I need you to tell me Window hosting is more expensive than Linux hosting and differences between them. Rackspace has me covered.
- Send me a three-line email. Before Christmas. It should like like this:
FTP: ftp.youroldclient.com
username: knowitall
password: yahoorocks
Are all web developers butts? Wait. Don’t answer that.
Sounds like a (not so) fun project. They could not manage but now will tell you how. Classic.
In the end, they'll hand over the keys and you will do what you do best.
I finally got the email I was looking for. You think they saw my post?
Honestly, this person probably doesn't know what a blog is…
They call that lost in the sauce. LOL
Glad you finally got what you need. Frustrating when easy becomes difficult for no good reason.
It's been my experience that most computer/internet/web professionals think everyone else knows nothing in comparison to themselves. I'm far from a professional, but can find my way around fairly well and have blown up and lost my share of data [and recovered it] and have lived to tell the tale. =)
Glad you finally got your info.
This is funny I know you didn't mean for it to be but it is. Good luck getting the login info.
Actually by the time I wrote that I was laughing so hard… You have no idea the craziness this project has brought with it. If I didn't have the sense of humor I do, I'd have gone ctazy already!
– Sent from my Palm Pre