How (not) to get a job as a freelancer/small web development company
by Siu Lun on Jul.09, 2009, under Business, Web
Another complaining post. Yeah, I complain a lot, there is so much stuff wrong with this world. Actually it’s more like Hong Kong, or maybe it’s just city life? I certainly haven’t seen as much problems with people as I have when I was living back in the UK.
Back to the main topic.
I had to source production companies lately for a client of mine as I don’t have enough time myself to do everything, and there was already a recommendation from one of the client’s employees, so I tagged along and tried to work with them.
But they’ve just been constantly rude and uncooperative. I’m actually suprised they recommended them to me in the first place. Here are some snippets of what happened:
1) I ask them for a schedule to know what they plan to do and by when they should be able to do it (pretty standard procedure for a web production company). They reply with:
No schedule can be provided, if you like, you are welcome to find
other companyEOF
Wow, at that moment I was wondering how they were making a living. That signature “EOF”… doesn’t that mean -End-Of- to you? Well I tell you something else too, they’ve constantly used that in any request I ask of them and have provided excuses of what’s “normal practise” in web industry (to basically say they can’t/won’t do it), and I just simply ignored it as “probably something hong kongese/chinese”. Well now I understand the meaning.
Oh btw… a lot of Hong Kong people and probably chinese people too are rude to the extremes. You can usually discount them for being mentally unstable and retarded – which is usually true. (just for any foreign friends who happened to understand cantontese/chinese and comes to Hong Kong/China. Though, you probably won’t understand so you’d be ok!
)
They can say good bye to any future contacts from me or anyone else I know.


July 10th, 2009 on 2:37 am
Shocking, but I bet they’re cheap, right? And you know cheap is better than good in Hong Kong!
-j
July 10th, 2009 on 5:54 am
They’re not particularly cheap either and in my books cheap is not better than good
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