{"id":90009,"date":"2016-08-14T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/?p=90009"},"modified":"2026-10-10T15:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T19:25:10","slug":"chapter-9-good-bad-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/chapter-9-good-bad-ugly\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 9 \u2014 Good, Bad & Ugly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Good, Bad &\u00a0Ugly<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cAhhhhh, it’s time to relax,
And you know what that means,
A glass of wine, your favourite easy chair,
And of course reading this chapter in your email inbox.

So go on, indulge yourself,
That’s right, kick off your shoes, put your feet up,
Lean back and just enjoy the story.
After all, reading soothes even the savage beasts.\u201d<\/p><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Intro, SMASH, Offspring<\/a> (all time favourite album)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to Chapter Nine. We\u2019re picking up where we left off two weeks ago. Why the disappearance, Paul? Where were you, bruh? Okay okay, we\u2019ll deal with it, albeit, in a moment. I know I have some explaining to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Side note: I have updated T\u2014S\u2014F<\/a> with open files from July. Yay!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I’m going to share my worst client experience. Thinking of it makes me recoil, grind my teeth \u2014 ensuing violent thoughts \u2014 and shudder in disbelief. Emotions best expressed in the song \u201cBad Habit\u201d by Offspring<\/a> (last reference to the album, promise).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As designers (and creative folk at large) we love to talk about bad clients. Those evil clients. Argh! The number of times I\u2019ve found myself in a heady and downward spiralling debate, nursing a glass of scotch. So if you think this is one lengthy rant bitching and pissing about a shitty client\u2014you\u2019ve come to the right place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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Good, Bad &\u00a0Ugly \u201cAhhhhh, it’s time to relax, And you know what that means, A glass of wine, your favourite easy chair, And of course reading this chapter in your email inbox. So go on, indulge yourself, That’s right, kick off your shoes, put your feet up, Lean back and just enjoy the story. After […]<\/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-90009","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-npL","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90009","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=90009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90267,"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90009\/revisions\/90267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulsyng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}