As a member of a local Atlanta Web Developer Meetup group, I recently received an interesting email from another member through the group’s mailing list. Below is the email in its entirety:
I met a guy in this club in a VIP section last year. To my surprise, he turned out to be a web designer/developer running his own company.
Was awesome to bump into someone of similar caliber that knew how to “party”!!
Before leaving to go another area, we exchanged cards, and I got the following from him:
– Free vista-print business card from one of their popular card themes.
– Link to his website on the card was actually a template-monster template
– All links to “work we’ve done” on the site was other template monster templates…some still with Lorem Ipsum Text..
For those not aware, Template Monster is a popular website where one can purchase professionally designed web layouts. Also, Lorem Ipsum text is placeholder text used on a website for visual presentation purposes.
Obviously, the “professional” was and maybe still is running his business venture purely on deception and false advertising which is an ideal recipe for disaster. Additionally, his practices may be affecting other professionals who take pride in producing their own, original work.
This email really does remind us that it pays to be honest and morals-driven in business and even in our daily encounters or one may just end up getting caught.