went postal..getting fired
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Glancing over the mysogynistic neo-caveman comments....
Sometimes the best way to deal with project managers is to do exactly what they request. Sometimes reason and well thought out and rational emails or conversations just don't do the same justice as facing them with their own misinformed and ridiculous design decisions.
On occassion after round after round of changes to my initial mockup as their ideas get shot down one by one, I have gone so far as to submit the original design again for it to be accepted as "the perfect solution".
Sometimes people just want to change things for no reason besides to feel like they are doing something. It's best to let them go for it, as if you're billing by the day they end up paying for it. Fine by me.
Another technique is to do a near-perfect design and throw in a red herring. Something that the client focuses on immediately which gives them the satisfaction of changing something but is no loss to you because you put it there on purpose. Works like a charm every time.