You can fuck up A LOT and retain customers if you're honest and truly working in the customer's favor. The absolute second a customer picks up that you're in it

You can fuck up A LOT and retain customers if you're honest and truly working in the customer's favor. The absolute second a customer picks up that you're in it to simply pick their pocket, there will be nothing left but a customer shaped hole in the wall. I have been in situations where we've completely fucked a customer's business causing all kinds of financial damage and customers have stayed because we committed to making things right. I've also been in situations where hubris assumed a sticky customer isn't going to unstick themselves, and of course the customer left. It's so much better business not to be an asshole. I really don't understand how people can't internalize this.