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Rotate the coffee

On a recent project, we submitted a press package that included a stock image (JPEG photograph) of a coffee machine facing the camera. They came back at us with this feedback:

Client: We really like everything, just one thing is bugging us : Can you rotate the coffee machine photo so it will be in profile?

A hidden gem from the Clients From Hell archives.

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One size fits all

Client: Why is this font a different size?

Me: It's the title. 

Client: Why is this a different size, then?

Me: That's a footnote. 

Client: Shouldn't they be the same size?

Me: No.

Client: Make them the same size. 

Me: ...

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Dream big, pay little

Client: *spends an entire hour meeting detailing the investors interested in this company, the moving and shaking he's been doing to "disrupt the sector," criticizing competitors for missing the mark and messing it up and stating how he's going to fix everything and emerge the clear leader sooner rather than later and how the marketing campaign I'm going to provide is going to be the cornerstone of that success*

Me: Wow, very exciting. Based on what you're describing, I think you'll need a broad range of services. I'm going to suggest a retainer contract at $3,000 per month.

Client: I was thinking more like $500 total. 

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Wrong side upside down

A hotel chef asked me to photograph some plates of food. I had a rostrum set-up for photographing the plate of food from above against a white background with no cutlery/crockery - as requested by the chef. Then I sent the prints off to the client.

Two days later, I get the head chef screaming on the phone at me.

Client: These photographs are rubbish!

Me: What’s wrong with them?

Client: You have photographed all the dishes upside down!

Me: Rotate the print by 180 degrees and they will be the right way up.

There was quite the silence before he hung up. 

An upside-down story from the Clients From Hell archives!

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RED ALERT! RED ALERT!

Client: Just so you know, I didn't pay the last programmer because he didn't deliver to my standards - so if you want full payment, make sure you do a good job.

Me: So you let this other guy do all the work and then didn't pay him because you didn't use it?

Client: No, we're using it - but it's not up to our standards. We expect better from you.

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Finished rough

Client: This isn't finished at all.

Me: No, I know. It's a rough concept. Like you asked for.

Client: Well it has to be more finished before it goes to print.

Me: I KNOW.

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