{"id":90008,"date":"2016-08-03T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/?p=90008"},"modified":"2026-10-10T15:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T19:22:36","slug":"chapter-8-zara-steals-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/chapter-8-zara-steals-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 8 \u2014 Zara Steals Too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When Zara \u2014 yes, them too \u2014 steals your work<\/a>, one\u2019s gut knee-jerk reaction fulminates resulting in a stubbed toe, concrete wall intact. Try replacing “Zara” with your favourite brand. How does that feel? Fucking sucks, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why does our \u2014 a creative professional\u2019s \u2014 heart sink? Because we\u2019re eyeing great brands hoping that one day working with them would put an end to the \u201cCraigslist\u201d addiction (and spec work alike). But sadly, they\u00a0(not all but a few) are no better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Devils don’t come from hell beneath us. No, they come from the sky.”
\u2014Lex Luthor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to Chapter Eight. The unofficial third part in a series with “What To Expect<\/a>” being the first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the longest time, I coddled the notion bad clients are bred only in India (and developing countries alike). Having worked and lived in North America and Asia, I can assure you \u2014 like good ones \u2014 bad clients are everywhere. Thank you, Zara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the way, I’m not trying to pull a Trump on you. Scaring you or pressing on your deepest fears isn\u2019t how I comb my bald head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So why do \u2014 the likes of Zara \u2014 do it? How are they any better than your average lunch box bully? How do ruthless strong-arm tactics and scaring independent creatives make sense? Considering the hyper socially-connected world we live in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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When Zara \u2014 yes, them too \u2014 steals your work, one\u2019s gut knee-jerk reaction fulminates resulting in a stubbed toe, concrete wall intact. Try replacing “Zara” with your favourite brand. How does that feel? Fucking sucks, right? Why does our \u2014 a creative professional\u2019s \u2014 heart sink? Because we\u2019re eyeing great brands hoping that one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"paid_subscribers","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":true,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digest-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7CVvN-npK","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90226,"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90008\/revisions\/90226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}