Attitudes in IT - Mediocrity Wins?

podo asks: "I've spent the past two months of my life working almost full time on a PHP/MySQL based web site for a client. Today I received an e-mail from the client point me to a similar web site set up by a competitor. 'Doing exactly what we are doing.' The site in question is not doing what we are doing, they have no dynamic content, no web forms, just e-mail addresses. They scarcely have any content (I counted only four HTML pages) at all. The client is chastising me for taking a long time and because the other site is 'much more impressive visually' than ours. Has anyone else found themselves in a situation where their painstaking work is compared to work which is a showcase for mediocrity? How have you dealt with such clients who fail to see the difference between a shoddy rush job and real quality?"

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here's what I do

[L. VeGas]

How have you dealt with such clients who fail to see the difference between a shoddy rush job and real quality?

Well, what I always do is
1. pout
2. kick my dog
3. drink
4. be curt and surly to my wife
5. think about whining to Slashdot