Clients From Hell: a case of clam idiocy

"I was working with a large company to help them design a new series of mascots aimed at children. We settled on an ocean theme, and we started to create mockups for family members based on sea life. For reasons unknown to me, human resources (HR) had to be CC'd throughout any and all interactions we had. This, however, turned out to be unnecessary as HR wasn't reading the emails. And that was fine, until we had a misunderstanding ..."

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