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Is this a hoax? If not, that designer seems rather dickish.

On the other hand, the “Please design a logo for me. With pie charts. For free.” is both hilarious and pitch-perfect.

They were two sizes too small but I wanted them so badly I figured I could just wear them without socks and cut my toenails very short.

An oldie but a goodie. This is one of the funniest things on the Internet. Thanks for sharing :) I LOL ’d

I’m sure it’s just another hoax put together to attract attention to the site.

However, if it is real, the guy is definitely an elitist ass. We don’t know much of the context other than a woman had her cat gone missing and apparently wasn’t in tune with this guy’s schedule. Maybe she was distraught about a pet she dearly cared for going missing? So what if you don’t like cats. Have a little perspective and consider that other people enjoy things you don’t, just like you might have tastes that aren’t shared by others too. No, instead you had to lash out at a woman going through a personal crisis.

He doesn’t like cats and he took the opportunity to mock a woman who dearly cared about one. What a stand up guy he is. If he is real, I definitely wouldn’t hire him based on this exchange.

Rather than make fun of someone in multiple emails and with a number of images, how about he just slap the picture on an image with a header and footer and spend less time on that than it took to write the emails alone. That would take 30 seconds.

It’s snobbish behavior like this that gives designers, Mac users and cat haters a bad name. And I say that as a Mac user and someone with a cat.

A coworker asked me a 3minutes service for something she cared about. I have time to make what she asked me (obviously with 7 pictures made…). Let’s mock her, it so funny ! And I can post it to my Internet friends and gain Internet fame…

Even in a megacorp it’s a strange work environment…

She is a secretary, would it be considered funny if she refuses to accept package delivery because of imaginary workload?

[] probability this is real [] probability it’s funny anyway

(just imagine a monotone circle.)

Come on…. this is hilarious. I mean why be helpful when you can be an asshole instead.

@Joost Lighten up FFS

Strange that, even though they are in South Africa (notice the spelling of “faeces” and the phone number format), that the reward is in dollars.

Seems like the reward would have been in rand, the currency of South Africa…

This seems like a fresh take on an old internet joke, and reminds me of the swing, or the sysadmin from Hell story, which gave good sysadmins a bad name. Not as funny these days, when someone from India can do the job right the first time, and much cheaper than David Thorne.

Maybe I’m biased, besides cats, the guy hates bicyclists, if you see one of his other posts. So yes, I’d agree, this is one of those snarky columns, intended to incite and draw attention.

Granted, nice artwork and it is funny.

@Semi-anonymous Australia, where David Thorne lives, is not South Africa, but it does have dollars and (for the most part) uses British English spelling.