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Seph:
Sad but true. That's exactly why I was just as confused when I received their reasoning for it. Actually, I wasn't just confused, I was absolutely conflabbergasted.
It's strange you mention the fashion industry as well. The "silverback" partner related a story to me at the pub a couple of weeks prior to this about this woman who runs the BA fashion department at Central St. Martin's named Louise Rhodes. She is notorious around the world for being a complete bitch and really pushing people to their limits. During portfolio reviews having one table labelled shit and one table labelled good she would go through the students portfolios throwing them onto the shit or good table and making sure they knew exactly why. Which is fine, separating the wheat from the chaff during your schooling years is part of the bargain and I would respect her for it. Some of the students would break down and work themselves to death in order to produce something making it onto the "good" table.
I believe that this perhaps may have been the actual intention of the client, he was trying to by force make me break down and take the same measures. He did it clumsily however and obviously it hasn't had the same effect.
However, I am no longer a student and haven't been for years. So that was a bad idea really. He even asked after all of this whether or not I still wanted to do the site. That was my hint to the above, but they had gone too far already, and my mind had soured towards the project at this treatment.
I hope I win as well and am fairly confident that my ass is covered. There is no reason to treat people like that at all.