Great Clients - Best Client Stories

I've seen stories of clients being rude, idiots and annoying on this website. I wanted to take a minute to be grateful for some golden stories that have arisen from dealing with absolute legend clients who are actually fun to hang out with. I'm sure many of us have dealt with a decent amounts of boozy nights, debauchery and general stupid shit with clients. I'll start off with a personal one.

We're in Europe conducting a two day workshop with a Big Pharma. Our lead client contact is someone the Partners have been working with for years and know very well, including the reputation for their group being a boozy group.

Day 1 goes ahead and everything goes well. After the workshop, the client had organised a great dinner for the entire group with a seemingly unlimited expense account. With unlimited expenses comes unlimited alcohol. Beer, wine and spirits being served all dinner long. About 3 hours later, the dinner ends and a small fraction of us decide to go bar crawling whilst most of the group heads back to the hotels to rest up for Day 2 (not a bad idea looking back).

At this point, it was a couple of us Juniors, two Partners and the lead client with a small group of mid-level executives. After a string of bars and enough alcohol to put Ben Affleck into a coma, we decide to go back to the hotel, whilst the lead client and some members of their group continue to go hard on the drinking. This was at about 3AM with the workshop due to start at 9AM the next day. We get back to the hotel and try to have enjoy 5 hours of alcohol-riddled sleep.

The next day all of us slowly drag our hungover selves into the main conference room for Day 2 of the workshop. As we trickle in, we notice that the lead client is not there. We wait a bit and decide to proceed without him as we had a significant amount of material to cover before leaving that evening. In all of this, we are wondering where the lead client is and send a Junior to their hotel to investigate. With the help of housekeeping they find him - laid out like a drunken corpse in a trashed hotel room with a half eaten pizza spread over the bed.

A few hours later he managed to gather enough energy to get out of bed and join us for the second half of the workshop. When he and the Junior told us about the story we lost it. Apparently they had continued a booze-filled evening across bars and clubs only to come back a couple hours before the workshop was due to start for "a quick nap". Funnest client I've ever dealt with.

This is the company who took a Partner of ours out to dinner (a group of 4 in total) and spent $650 each. Such fun people to be around.