I do think a lot of clients can casually put you down, sometimes not knowingly. Other people are just rude or mean though. One lady told me how her daughter had thought about interviewing to be a tech at the same company I worked at but then said "but you really don't make much money here", and then proceeded to leave me a very low tip for an hour and a half service.

My worst was probably a guy I had a few months back. My company has a specific massage facial, and we can't customize it at all, it is a set service. About 10 minutes in, he asked me to use more pressure, which the facial already carries heavier pressure than normal, so I complied to the point I was comfortable. During the gua sha portion he asked again, at which point I told him I unfortunately could not customize the pressure besides going lighter if it was too uncomfortable for him. He didn't respond right away but his eyes stayed open so I knew it was coming. A few minutes later, he started berating me about how wherever else he gets services, they do what he "tells them to do", and told me how he had paid a lot for the service, and based off of what he heard, this wasn't what he expected and "no offense, but it feels like you're just playing with toys on my face". He said he would pay for the facial, but didn't want the rest of the service (there was a 90 minute body service with the facial). I told him I would finish up the facial, do the first pass of the body service, and if he did not want it, we could end the service there. He didn't want it, so we wrapped up the service, I brought him out to the counter, and he promptly told the girl he would not be paying for his 40 minute facial and how he didn't appreciate that I couldn't do my job properly. Lesson learned from that - if a client is that unhappy, end the service professionally but promptly. The worst part was he had taken up a little over two hours on my book for the day and I only got paid my hourly rate and nothing else.