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Here are a few ways we can all use to better deal with them and thus create a better working relationship.

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I learned how to deal with, picky and angry clients, how to write about something I have zero prior knowledge of (hazardous waste is not exactly a popular topic) and I even sat in on planning sessions to watch an entire campaign play out.

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I had many clients who were wealthy executives, married with children — supposedly upstanding citizens — but who led double lives as drug-hungry perverts.

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“You submit your work, and I pay you based on how long I think it took you. No need for timesheets.”

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Tubing is a lot like your first job with one crucial difference: in tubing, your dad is there to rope in your half-naked body. Let me explain.

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“Well, you work for free! If you were supposed to be paid, you’d be called a paidlancer or something!”

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We’ve gone over this already. Are you purposely daft, or are you actually this stupid? Oh, and yes, excuse me for charging you for work that I did. I don’t need to eat or anything.

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If you work in client service you’ll understand this more than if you don’t, and if you’re a client maybe you’ll take this as a hint that… well… I hate you. I don’t hate you as a person, though; I just hate you as a business person.