Bad PR: 'Unpaid' Freelancer Replaces Client's Website with Angry Letter

What freelancer doesn’t know the anxiety and frustration of waiting for a way-past-due payment from a wayward client? While obsessively checking and re-checking our mailboxes to find the money that must surely be on its way and wallowing in the depths of I-finished-my-work-on-time-but-still-can’t-pay-my-bills-despair, we’ve sometimes found ourselves fantasizing about sabotage. But, because we like to think of ourselves as responsible, civil, and professional individuals (and because we’d like to ‘work in this town again’), we keep such delusions of diabolical grandeur to ourselves.

Frank Jonen, who runs his own small Web design company, apparently had no such qualms about taking full-scale revenge when his client, Fitness SF, allegedly failed to pay him fairly for his work.

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