is this for real?

[gilicom]

http://www.architectsassociates.net/
check out what those guys are saying about themselves.

[roppin]

hehe. Guess not

[nvanherpt]

i could see the point if it was funny, but it aint

[gilicom]

i could see the point if it was funny, but it aint

... so you think its real?

[roppin]

it can´t be serius

[timmatron]

I think it's hilarious! SATIRE

[gilicom]

i think that's just the right way to treat our customers...

[cpnichols]

i could see the point if it was funny, but it aint

You don't find that funny? I think it is a reaction to the corporate BS in the US... You may not have similar firms in the UK... if so, I envy you.

That site is a arhitecture version of another site that did a simialr thing:

http://www.huhcorp.com/

[RErender]

If you read the contacts you can be assured it is satire or rhetorc as the author calls it, pretty funny though

[ShaunDon]

It gets funnier the more you read. I really like this:

Please don't assume you are the important client though. Some of our clients are acutally important, the rest really aren't, i.e. if you try to call us, we'll ask you first who you are, because unless you have paid us a lot of money very recently, we'll find ourselves in a meeting... out of the office. Don't bother trying to fool us; we use caller id. Actually, you should be honored if we answer the phone at all.

Oh man, if that ain't the Lord's honest truth!

Shaun

[Adam H. Stewart]

Great

I think it's great - reminds me of that computer add that all those horribly trendy 20 somethings riding around the office of razor skooters with funky hairstyles ( aka every apple add) as the VO is going on and on about how wonderful and imaginative these people are. The end of the ad is the best one of them gets hit in the head when somebody open's a door and the poor wornout tech support guy who has been trying to ring them since the beginning of the add proclaims "You're morons who never answer the phone"
I guess you need to work with people like this to understand the irony

[arobbert]

It's very funny. I've been sending it to everyone, except clients

[twinxel]

Unfortunatly I've been working with an architect that act exactly like this at the point that constructors simply double the price when they realize he's the author of the design.

And he only cares about to "be different", giving a shite to construction costs or environmental sustanbility, etc.

Was very very sad to see this kind of people working like that way.

But anyway, liked the page sarcasm a lot.

J.

[thablanch]

That's really funny... I think I was able to place a face on half of their staff..