I love....
When someone gives you a brief which is 'I'm not sure on exactly what I'm looking for' and you probe to get what it is they want....and they're 'Oh, you're the artist and know best - I'll trust you to do something awesome'

and then you submit what you've done and are met with 'Oh, this is wrong, this I don't like, can't we have something more like X....etc etc'

Why. didn't. you. fucking. put. that. in. your. original. brief. fucko.
(Pat_Gash, Thu 20 May 2010, 15:29, 2 replies)

That's why when dealing with people like that
you should never put too much effort into the first attempt. They only need to see it to know what they don't like and give them something concrete to focus on. It's a bit like the Douglas Adams approach to decision-making: flip a coin, then when it comes out wrong, you know what it was you really wanted to do.
( flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Thu 20 May 2010, 15:33, closed)

Reminds me of the Dilbert strip
where the sales guy says "Why don't you just show me a list of everything you can design, and I'll tell you which one I want?", whereupon Dilbert says "Work is rewarding; you should try it sometime."
( .Yeti., Thu 20 May 2010, 15:43, closed)