What’s the dumbest way you’ve ever received a document from a client?

The Quirkiest Document Submissions: A Professional’s Perspective

As professionals, we often encounter a myriad of experiences while collaborating with clients, but some document submissions are puzzling enough to leave us shaking our heads in disbelief. In today’s blog, I invite you to reminisce about the most unusual and, dare I say, “uniquely unorthodox” ways clients have shared documents with you.

Allow me to kick off the discussion with an example from my own experience. There was a time when a client sent me a photograph of a PDF displayed on their iPad, yet they took the picture using a Samsung phone. This seemingly straightforward task turned into a manual ordeal, as we had no choice but to process that invoice by hand.

It certainly made me wonder about the myriad of quirks clients bring to the table. I know I’m not alone in this. So, let’s open the floor: what is the strangest or most perplexing document submission you’ve encountered? Perhaps you’ve received handwritten notes, scans that were upside down, or files with cryptic names like “Image(345).jpg.” Every story is valid and truly contributes to the beautiful chaos of our professional lives.

I’m collecting these anecdotes not to sell anything, but rather to find comfort in shared experiences. After all, we’re all navigating the same waters, and your stories might just inspire a solution to streamline this documentation process. So, let’s hear your tales!